Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN LEWIS - see OWEN, LEWIS
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (d. 1555), judge ,' and in revenge was killed, 12 October 1555, on the spot still known as ' Llidiart-y-barwn,' near Mallwyd, Meironnydd. Owen was twice married, and from his first marriage issued an unusually large number of the later gentle families of Merionethshire who appear in the present work; see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 363. From the eldest son, JOHN OWEN of Llwyn, came the Bronclydwr family (see Hugh Owen
OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist The Unmasking of all Popish Monks, etc., 1628, dedicated to Sir John Lloyd of Aberllefenni and Ceiswyn, and Speculum Jesuiticum, 1629. W. Llewelyn Williams says that he died in 1629.
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) ). She was born at Barking in 1742 and christened there on 28 November After the death of her mother, c. 1756-8, at Penrhos, where the family lived after the father's death, she and her troublesome brother, John Owen (1741 - 1823), were brought up by their aunt, Susanna Lyster. She made her home at Shrewsbury but spent much of her time in the company of Mrs. Thrale, a distant relation and childhood
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet Matthew Owen was christened 10 April 1631, son of the first wife of John Owen, who in his turn was son of a John Owen, traditionally stated to have been the son of Owen John, rector of Llangar from 1586 till his death in 1592. He composed a number of songs in the manner of Huw Morys - englynion, cywyddau, and at least one elegiac awdl. Several of his songs reveal that he lived for some time at
OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary given the rectory of Mellteyrn with Botwnnog but continued to live at Bangor (Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, 582). He died, unmarried, 30 May 1811, and was buried at Llandyfrydog. He is one of the several authors who have been credited with the authorship of the History of the Island of Anglesea, 1775 (see John Thomas, 1736 - 1769).
OWEN, OWEN (1806 - 1874), divine and physician said to have spent upon well-intentioned but impracticable projects. He died in 1874. His wife, MARY ANNE OWEN (died c. 1870), was the daughter of David Beynon and granddaughter of John Beynon of Tre-wern (on the border between Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire), sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1783. In 1752, under the pseudonym 'Celata', she published a small illustrated volume of dialogues and poems
OWEN, OWEN (1850 - 1920), first chief inspector of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education in Wales Born in the parish of Llaniestyn, Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, together with his cousin John Owen, later bishop of S. Davids. He proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, and took honours in classics. From his youth he was interested in music. About 1878 he became headmaster of a private school in Oswestry. The school was successful and developed in 1883 into the
OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère their father's biography (1907) and the works of Eluned Morgan : Dringo'r Andes (1904), Gwymon y môr (1909), Ar dir a môr (1913). On 9 October 1909 John Owen married Mabel Annie Dawson, and by that time he was well-known as a choir conductor, an elocutionist, witty public speaker and compère at eisteddfodau. He refused an offer to be a compère at the national eisteddfod in Abergavenny in 1913, but he
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister Born in 1839, son of John and Mary Owen of Ystum Werddon, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. Richard's education was spasmodic for his father died when he was 11 years of age and his brother died a year later. When he made known his desire to enter the ministry the authorities were dubious because it was felt that he would need a lot of training. As he grew up the little chapel of Cana, tucked away in a
OWEN, RICHARD JONES (Glaslyn; 1831 - 1909), poet and prose-writer Born 13 April 1831 at Llofft-y-tŷ-llaeth, Park, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd, son of John and Elizabeth Owen. His early education was of the scantiest. After a period as a boy-servant at Ynysfor, he found work at the age of 14, in the slate-quarries of Ffestiniog. He married Elin Jones of Beddgelert, and they made their home at Beddgelert, where two sons were born to them. Glaslyn continued his
OWEN, ROBERT (d. 1685), Quaker October 1659; as late as January 1660 he was placed by the ' Rump ' on the county committee for the assessment of taxes. American Quaker sources make him governor of Beaumaris immediately before the Restoration (adding that John ap John, was there with him). In April 1660, Owen, with some of his late fellow-commissioners, was arrested, and imprisoned in Caernarvon gaol. In the same year he joined the

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