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teulu OWEN Plas-du, The surname Owen became fixed in this old Caernarvonshire stock (descended from Collwyn ap Tangno) with the children of OWEN AP GRUFFYDD and his wife Margaret, daughter of Foulk Salusbury of Llanrwst (and subsequently wife of Gruffydd Madryn), several of whom were closely associated with the Catholic revival following the excommunication of Elizabeth (1570). THOMAS OWEN, the eldest son, was
OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator Born 26 November 1904, the eldest son of Edward Owen, minister of Crane Street church (B), Pontypool, Monmouthshire, who some months previously had moved from Bethel church (B), Tonypandy, and his wife Gertrude Louisa, daughter of Thomas Henry Kemp. (He had been a notable schoolmaster in Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, from 1865 to 1892 and a master in the Normal department of the University College
OWEN, DANIEL (1836 - 1895), novelist Born 20 October 1836 at 53 Maes-y-dref, Mold, Flintshire, the youngest of six children. His father, a coal miner, lost his life, as did two of his sons, when the Argoed coal mine was flooded; Daniel Owen's mother belonged to the family of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant). He received but little education in his childhood. When he was twelve he began a five years' apprenticeship to a tailor; later
OWEN, DAVID (Brutus; 1795 - 1866), editor and littérateur Llangian; and in addition to his ministerial office, he served also as a country doctor and a schoolmaster. About 1820 he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Jones, Rhandir, a local farmer and an Independent deacon. It was presumably poverty and his rashness that drove him to appeal for financial aid from the Unitarian Association, claiming that his congregations had accepted Unitarian beliefs. His
OWEN, Sir DAVID JOHN (1874 - 1941), docks manager Born in Liverpool 8 March 1874 the son of R. Ceinwenydd Owen, minister (Presb.) and Elizabeth Jane (née Jones). He married (1), in 1899, Mary Elizabeth (died 1906) daughter of Captain William Owen, Caernarfon; and (2), in 1908, Marian Maud, widow of J.H. Thomas, Carmarthen, and daughter of Alderman William Williams of Haverfordwest; there were no children. He was educated at the Liverpool
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
OWEN, EDWARD (1728/9 - 1807), cleric and schoolmaster English Verse (two vols., 1785; later editions, 1786 and 1810). He also published school Latin grammars. Gilbert Wakefield speaks of Owen as ' a man of most elegant learning, unimpeachable veracity and peculiar benevolence of heart.' But Thomas Seddons lampooned him in Characteristic Strictures, 1779. His portrait is preserved in Warrington Museum. He died 5 April 1807.
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian Annual Report of the National Library for the years 1909-10. The manuscripts, now NLW MS 815-68, are described in N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., i, 61-7; they include several volumes containing pedigrees and poems, seven volumes from the library of Sir Richard Colt Hoare; two volumes compiled by William Williams, Llandygài; and volumes which had belonged previously to Jonathan Jones, surveyor of taxes
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet Ellis Owen established the Eifionydd Literary Society at Cefn-y-meysydd to foster local culture. This society flourished for twelve years, and there the young farmers of the district foregathered to discuss literary and educational topics, under the guidance of Ellis Owen. The first secretary of the society was Thomas Jones, Cefn-y-meysydd Uchaf, who was afterwards pastor of Tabor Congregational
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist , and lies buried at Nevern. George Owen, was deeply influenced by the great awakening of interest in history and antiquities which marked the age of Elizabeth in Wales as well as England. Not only was he a student of the work of Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel, Sir John Price, and their contemporaries in England, but he was on familiar terms with William Camden, whom he helped, Lewys Dwnn, Thomas Jones
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet School established in Bridgend by the fervent nationalist Trefor Morgan. Then after a brief period at Ysgol y Betws, another Welsh Medium School in Bridgend, Gerallt left the education system and established a publishing company, Gwasg Gwynedd, with Alwyn Elis of Nant Peris in 1972. In the same year he married Alwena Jones from Deiniolen and settled in Llandwrog where they had three children, Mirain
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician number of articles in English and Welsh journals. He received the freedom of the Borough of Conway in 1943 and was knighted in 1944. Owen married in 1925 Margaret Gladwyn, the widow of Owen Jones, Glanbeuno, Caernarfonshire (it was he who erected the monument to Lloyd George in the Castle Square, Caernarfon) and the daughter of David Jones, coal merchant of Denbigh. She was a sister to Edna, the wife

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