Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, ALUN OGWEN (1904 - 1970), eisteddfod administrator and supporter (1942-52) and Leeswood (1952-63) schools. Although he retired to Rhyl (Glan Ogwen, Grange Road) in 1963, he continued to teach Welsh in Offa's Dyke Comprehensive School, Prestatyn until 1965, He married (1) Lil Evans (died 2 August 1968) in Llanbedr, Meironnydd in 1932 and they had one son, Euryn Ogwen Williams. He married (2) Gwladys Spencer Jones in Colwyn Bay, June 1970 and moved to Noddfa, Erw-wen
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor means his most important contribution, for he published in 1956 his Calendar of the Caernarvonshire Quarter Sessions Records, 1541-1558 with a masterly introduction describing the historical background of the documents. This is arguably the best analysis of the Tudor administrative and social order in Wales and gained for Ogwen Williams his M.A.(Wales) in 1956. Large portions of the introduction were
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister charm of his eloquence and partly because of his genial personality, and he retained his hold on his congregations until the end. He was in his day a writer and poet of some standing; he had been awarded a number of prizes and had been invested as a bard at Caernarvon in 1862, receiving the name Dewi Ogwen. Hymns written by him are to be found in Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd, and he was one of the
JONES, JOHN (1796 - 1857), Calvinistic Methodist minister, a celebrated and unusually forceful preacher Born 1 March 1796 at Tan-y-castell, Dolwyddelan, Caernarfonshire, son of John and Elen Jones, and brother of David Jones of Treborth (1805 - 1868). He lost his father when he was 12 years of age. He worked, first of all, on the new main road between Capel Curig and lake Ogwen and then in a quarry at Trefriw. Under the influence of the Beddgelert revival (1819) he joined the congregation at
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician He was born at Bethesda on 20 September 1913, the son of Edward E. and Amelia Roberts. His father was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He was educated at Ogwen Grammar School, Bethesda and the University College of North Wales, Bangor (1st class honours in English, and MA with distinction), and he was then appointed a Fellow of the University of Wales in 1938. While a student at
WILLIAMS, DAVID JAMES (1870 - 1951), schoolmaster Mary. He had a daughter and 3 sons. D.J. Williams was an unassuming man whose shyness concealed his great ability and his acquaintance with many prominent figures, but he left his mark heavily on the community in the Ogwen valley. He died 1 October 1951 and was buried in Coetmor cemetery, Bethesda.
JONES, JOHN OGWEN (1829 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher road near Llyn Ogwen.
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure Tudur Jones, the son of Thomas Jones, a railway worker, and Elizabeth Jane (neé Williams), a nurse, was born in Tyddyn Gwyn, Llanystumdwy, Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire on June 28 1921. Along with his brother and sister, he was raised in Rhyl, Flintshire. The family were zealous Independents, worshipping regularly at Carmel chapel, under the ministry of Rev T. Ogwen Griffith. The 1904-5 Revival
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet wish to do so. He came to some prominence as a minor poet when he won the Chair at the Dyffryn Ogwen Eisteddfod for a series of lyric poems adjudicated by R. Williams Parry, a series of poems published, along with elegies composed on the death of Williams Parry and other poems, in the only volume of verse he published during his lifetime, Cloch y Bwi (Gwasg Gee, [1958]). The poems are simple well
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Arthur Rhys Roberts was born on 27 April 1872 at 20 Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda, the only child of the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Jerusalem chapel (Calvinistic Methodists), and his wife Winifred, herself the child of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Rees Jones (Brynmenai, y Felinheli). He was sent, for a secondary education, to the Salop School, Oswestry, a non-denominational boarding school
DEWI OGWEN - see ROBERTS, DAVID

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