Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MOSTYN, 1st Baron - see MOSTYN
MOSTYN, 2nd Baron - see MOSTYN
MOSTYN, Baron WILLIAMS of - see WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN
OGMORE, 1st Baron - see WILLIAMS, DAVID REES
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario David Ormsby-Gore was born in London on 20 May 1918, the second son of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (1885-1964), fourth Baron Harlech, landowner and politician, and his wife Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred (née Gascoigne-Cecil, 1891-1980), a daughter of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury. His older brother and the barony of Harlech's heir presumptive, Owen Gerard Cecil Ormsby-Gore (1916-1935) died
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker Born in London, 11 April 1885, son of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore (who became 3rd Baron Harlech in 1904) and Lady Margaret Ethel (née Gordon). The family home was Brogyntyn, near Oswestry, Salop. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and in 1913 he married Lady Beatrice Cecil, a member of a prominent Conservative family. In 1910 he was elected M.P. for the Borough of Denbigh by only eight votes
OVERSTONE, Baron - see LOYD, LEWIS
OWEN family Peniarth, , 4th son of baron Lewis Owen, of Dolgelley, Elizabeth was the mother of LEWIS OWEN I (died 1633), who left two daughters (1) MARGARET (died 4 October 1667), the heiress, and (2) Susan, mother of Hugh Owen (1639 - 1700), who was given Bronyclydwr, a few miles from Peniarth. Margaret, by her first husband, Richard Owen of Morben, Machynlleth, was the mother of LEWIS OWEN II (1625 - 1691), who was high
OWEN, BARON - see OWEN, LEWIS
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar Born in 1716 at Dyffrydan, about 3 miles from Dolgellau, son of William Owen (died 1767), a lawyer, and christened 29 January at Dolgelley. His mother's name was Jonet(te). According to Powys Fadog (vi, 463-72), he was of the family of baron Lewis Owen (died 1555). Henry was his father's second son; the eldest was Lewis Owen (died 1757), whose son was Henry Owen (1750 - 1827), a Dolgelley
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' He was of the same family as 'baron' Lewis Owen, the great divine Dr. John Owen (1616 - 1683), a distant relative, the chief people of Merioneth amongst his friends and acquaintances. He matriculated at Oxford (Jesus College, 1660), began to preach, but he was silenced (to use Calamy's word) by the Act of Uniformity, 1662. He joined the Puritan congregation of Wrexham, becoming a teaching elder
OWEN, JOHN (1616 - 1683), Puritan (Independent) divine Griffith Owen of Talhenbont, Llanegryn, Meironnydd, and great-grandson of 'baron' Lewis Owen (died 1555). He was also first cousin to the mother of Hugh Owen of Bronclydwr (1639-1700) - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 323. These facts have been rather fancifully embroidered by some who have claimed that Hugh Owen's Dissent resulted from his 'uncle's' influence upon him during his Oxford career; but the

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