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OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Tywysog Cymru' o ddigwyddiadau ei flynyddoedd olaf. Treuliodd beth amser yn Llundain - yn yr Inns of Court - yn ennill iddo'i hun rai o nodweddion a grasusau cymdeithasol gwyr y llys. Wedi peth amser yn dysgu milwrio bu'n gwasnaethu Coron Lloegr mewn amryw gyrchoedd; y mae'n sicr iddo fynd gyda'r cyrch i Sgotland yn 1385; yn 1387 y mae'n bosibl iddo gynorthwyo Henry Bolingbroke - y brenin Harri IV wedi hynny
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' later years. Some time was spent in London acquiring - at the Inns of Court - some of the social graces of the courtier. After a further period of apprenticeship as a soldier, he served the crown in several campaigns: he certainly accompanied the Scottish expedition in 1385 and, in 1387, may have supported Henry Bolingborke - the future king Henry IV - at Radcot Bridge. In 1386 he appeared as witness
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), hanesydd ); llyfr cofnodion bwrdeistref Biwmares, 1694-1723 (1932) a dyddiadur Bulkeley Dronwy (1937). Golygodd hefyd Braslun o hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Môn, 1880-1935 (1937); ac, ar y cyd â Gwilym Peredur Jones, Caernarvon court rolls, 1361-1402 (1951), a chyhoeddodd y llyfrau canlynol: The life and works of Lewis Morris (Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn) 1701-1765 (1951), The history of Anglesey constabulary (1952) a
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian court of quarter sessions, 1768-88 (1924); Beaumaris bailiff's accounts, 1779-1805 (1929); a volume of Beaumaris borough records, 1694-1723 (1932) and the diary of Bulkeley, Dronwy (1937). He also edited Braslun o hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Môn, 1880-1935 (1937); and, with Gwilym Peredur Jones, Caernarvon court rolls, 1361-1402 (1951), and he published the following books: The life and works of
OWEN, HUGH JOHN (1880 - 1961), solicitor, author and local historian on the Court of Governors of the National Library of Wales from 1934 until his death. He was a painstaking researcher and worked unceasingly on local records of all kinds, particularly on the records of the Merioneth quarter sessions court. He published five volumes: The Merioneth Volunteers and local militia during the Napoleonic Wars (1934); Echoes of old Merioneth (1944); Sir Love's adventures
OWEN, LEONARD (1890 - 1965), administrator in India, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Legislative Assembly (1935), and was made a C.I.E. in 1938 in recognition of his meritorious service to India. During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Home Security (1939-44), Ministry of Supply (1945), and Board of Trade (1946-52), subsequently devoting his time to humanitarian and cultural activities. He was chairman of the National Society for Epileptica, a member of the court of governors and
OWEN, MARGARET (1742 - 1816) cyfeilles Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) a'r Dr. Samuel Johnson; merch Lewys Owen (1696 - 1746), mab ieuengaf Syr Robert Owen, Brogyntyn, Sir Amwythig, o'i wraig Elisabeth, merch Richard Lyster, Penrhos, Sir Drefaldwyn, a Moynes Court, sir Fynwy. Yr oedd ei thad yn gymrawd yng Ngholeg All Souls, Rhydychen, ac yn rheithor Barking, swydd Essex (1735-46), a Wexham, swydd Buckingham (1742-6). Ganed
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) friend of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the daughter of Lewys Owen (1696 - 1746), younger son of Sir Robert Owen of Porkington (Brogyntyn), Salop, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and Moynes Court, Monmouthshire. Her father, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was rector of Barking, Essex (1735-46), and Wexham, Buckinghamshire (1742-6
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist the Court of Naples; DAVID DALE OWEN (1807 - 1860) made the first geological survey of the Middle West; RICHARD DALE OWEN was professor of natural science in Nashville University and won some distinction in the American Civil War.
OWEN, ROBERT (bu farw 1685), Quaker grandson of Robert Owen of Dolserau, Dolgelley, who was an attorney in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow and a son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen. In the Civil War he sided with Parliament. He sat on the North Wales Composition Committee in August 1649, was a militia commissioner for Merioneth from May 1651, was appointed for his county (October 1653) by Barebone's Parliament on the only county
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary appointment of John Probert to collect the king's rents in North Wales. He was called to the Bar, June 1781, and he kept chambers at Lincoln's Inn till 1794. He practised regularly for many years on the Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth circuit of the Court of Great Sessions. In 1781 he published anonymously, in London, Free Thoughts on the Continuance of the American War … by a Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) also dispelled many legends about her. It is fairly certain that it was her kinswoman ' lady Herbert of Troy ' who first brought her to Court. She herself asserts that she saw Elizabeth ' in her cradle,' but the princess was three years old (1536) before Blanche became officially her ' gentlewoman.' In 1558 she became ' second gentlewoman,' and in 1565 'first,' but she never held a 'noble' post at

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