Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, DAVID SAMUEL (1887 - 1959), minister (Presb.) built on the site of the old. In 1913 he married Gracy Jones, Glan Conwy and they had two sons and three daughters. He died 26 March 1959, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery, Colwyn Bay. A powerful and popular preacher, there was great demand for his services in Wales, where he served as Moderator of the North Wales Association (1954). From an early age he excelled as an elocutionist at
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn This family, like others in western Merioneth, traced its descent from Osbwrn Wyddel, in this instance through Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Einion, constable of Harlech castle, and his wife, Margaret (Puleston). THOMAS, the son of Dafydd and Margaret, married Gwerfyl, daughter of HOWEL AP RHYS, of Bron-y-foel - see Ellis family of Bron-y-foel and Ystumllyn - and had a son, DAFYDD, who married Lowry
DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814 - 1867), musician Born 16 June 1814 at Segar farm, Henllan, near Denbigh. He lost his mother when he was 4 years of age and was brought up at Bron-haul, Henllan, by an uncle. He was apprenticed to a painter at S. Asaph. In 1834 he moved to Bangor, where he came into prominence as a musician and was elected precentor of the Wesleyan chapel. In 1837 he married Margaret, daughter of Owen Williams of Tros-y-canol
LLOYD-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist his interests. Among them are copies of parish registers and other records, etc., together with transcripts of three books published by his great-grandfather John Owen (1757 - 1829). He married (1868) Anna, daughter of John Green, M.R.C.S., Muxton, Salop. He died on Christmas Day, 1925, at his home, Bron-y-graig, Harlech.
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet Born at Ty'n-y-ffrwd, Rhostryfan, near Caernarvon, 4 March 1828. When he was 10 years of age he went to work in the quarry, leaving it at the age of 17 to go to Bron-y-foel school. It is not definitely known whether he went to Eben Fardd's school at Clynnog, but he certainly went to the Caernarvon Training College to qualify as a teacher in the Church schools. He was a schoolmaster at Clynnog
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet William John Roberts, Gwilym Cowlyd, a work which was published by his widow under the title Gwilym Cowlyd 1828-1904 (1976). He married Freda Vaughan Davies, Maesneuadd, Pontrobert and they had a son and a daughter. He died at his home in Colwyn Bay, 13 June 1968, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery, Colwyn Bay.
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD (d. c. 1381) Son of Gruffydd ap Hywel (from Collwyn), of Bron-y-Foel in the township of Ystumllyn and the parish of Ynyscynhaiarn, Eifionydd, by Angharad, daughter of Tegwared y Bais Wen. His paternal grandmother was a grand-daughter of Ednyfed Fychan. A younger son, he acquired fame in the French Wars of Edward III. The tradition that he won his spurs at Poitiers is not, however, confirmed by the evidence
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary Born at Carmarthen 13 April 1835, son of John Breese, Congregational minister, and Margaret, daughter of David Williams of Saethon in Llŷn. His father's death in 1842 threw him upon the care of his mother's kindred, who were influential in south Caernarvonshire. In particular, his uncle, David Williams of Bron Eryri already far advanced in a prosperous career as lawyer and politician, was able to
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' ; in 1668 he married Martha Brown, daughter of one of its more prominent members, once one of the seventy-one commissioners under the Propagation Act of 1650; and before 1672 he was overseer of the Independent nonconformists of Merioneth from his headquarters at Bron-y-clydwr in Llanegryn parish, the lands that fell to his mother from the Peniarth heritage. In May of that year he secured a licence
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and

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