Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect with Henry Harold Hughes, and The Old Churches of Snowdonia (1924, with H.H. Hughes). He died 9 February 1941.
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history John Thomas of Llanfihangel-Aber-bythych in 1769 under the title Duwioldeb Rhydychain - see the account of the matter in D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 64-6.
O'NEIL, BRYAN HUGH ST. JOHN (1905 - 1954), archaeologist
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet Born 7 November 1838 at White Hall, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, and christened 18 November, the fourth child of John and Sarah Oliver. He received his early education at the village school (1843-50) and in a Carmarthen school (1850-3), and then determined to prepare himself for the Independent ministry. After a successful career from 1853 to 1859 in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he
OLIVER(S), THOMAS (1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher Born at Tregynon, Montgomeryshire, in 1725 (christened 8 September). He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and became a travelling craftsman. He was converted by Whitefield, at Bristol, but joined the Wesleyans. In 1753, John Wesley appointed him to itinerate, and he did so for twenty-two years. In 1775 Wesley appointed Oliver superintendent of his printing in London, but had to remove him from
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario their significant country house library, that included rare manuscripts, to the National Library of Wales in the 1930s. They were a family rooted in the Marches and north-west Wales that pursued political careers at Westminster. Through London connections, in 1938 David Ormsby-Gore had met John Kennedy, the second son of the United States of America's new ambassador to London. Thus began a deep
OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth , spoken of as 'of Corsygedol.' The fullest account of Osbwrn is probably that given by W. W. E. Wynne in Pedigree of the Family of Wynne, of Peniarth in the County of Merioneth (London, 1872). A member of the influential family of the Geraldines, Osbwrn was considered by Sir William Betham, Ulster-king-at-Arms, to be the son of 'John Fitz Thomas Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald de Windsor the first Lord of
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer further trials named 'Grapple 'X', 'Y' and 'Z'. Oulton remained in command for 'Grapple X' but was succeeded by John Grandy for the other two. In April 1958 after returning from the Pacific, Oulton was appointed CB and became senior staff officer at Coastal Command headquarters at Northwood. This proved to be his final posting as, at his own request, he retired from the RAF in 1960. In retirement, he
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (d. 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales assassination at the siege of Mortagne-sur-Mer (obviously with the connivance of the English authorities), in July 1378, at the hands of a Scot, John Lamb, who had wormed himself into Owain's confidence. He was buried four miles away from the scene of his death, in the church of S. Leger, deeply mourned by a wide circle of associates, the deeds of this proud and generous, albeit passionate, personality
OWEN family Plas-du, pressure of creditors, e.g. Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and Sir William Maurice. Thomas Owen's third son was JOHN OWEN (died 1622), the epigrammatist. HUGH OWEN (1538 - 1618), Roman Catholic conspirator Religion, was a younger son of Owen ap Gruffydd, educated at Lincoln's Inn (21 April 1556), and employed in the household of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel and lord of Oswestry, whom he
OWEN family Peniarth, Gruffydd of Dol-goch, raglot of the commote of Ystumanner on two occasions during the reign of Edward III - his tomb is at Towyn church. Their son, ARON AB EDNYFED, was succeeded by EDNYFED, whose son was GRUFFYDD, father of the RHYS AP GRUFFYDD whose will is dated 1476. JOHN AP RHYS married Angharad, daughter of Dafydd ap Meurig Fychan, Nannau, their heir being WILLIAM, living in 1566, whose wife was
OWEN family Orielton, Cynddelw, said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd; Elizabeth Wirriot was the daughter and sole heiress of George Wirriot and his wife Jane, daughter of John Philipps of Picton castle. (The Wirriot family had been settled in Pembrokeshire since the 12th century; Giraldus Gambrensis mentions a Stephen of that name. A David Wirriot of the barony of Pembroke was one of the twelve jurors for the subsidy of

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