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OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor James Howell was born at Bryn Aber-nant, for Thomas Howell was at that time residing at Cefn-bryn, Llangamarch. James Owen's brother, D. J. Owen, is mentioned in the article on Jeremy Owen, and another brother, Charles Owen, is separately noticed. It is noteworthy that all the (nine) children, of a pronouncedly Anglican family, were Dissenters. James Owen went to Queen Elizabeth's School at Carmarthen
OWEN, JEREMY (fl. 1704-1744), Presbyterian minister and writer ), of Rochdale, who is in the D.N.B. He was certainly, on his own statement, one of the Bryn family - possibly a posthumous son of D. J. Owen (and therefore brother to Jeremy), possibly a son of EVAN JOHN OWEN, of Cyffig parish, who is conjectured (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 338) to have been a fourth of the sons of Bryn.
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor by a fellow- cleric, John Lewis of Plas Llanfihangel (Tre'r Beirdd); when he heard of John Owen's appointment as chancellor, Lewis wrote that he was ' famous for a troublesome litigious temper, and of an obscure mean family; … strange that the bishop was so imposed upon in appointing him ' (Henllys MS. 630 at U.C.N.W.).
OWEN, JOHN (bu farw 1759), poet, harpist, letter-writer nephew of the Morris family of Anglesey. Born probably at Holyhead during the early thirties of the 18th century (the parish records before 1737 are missing), the son of Owen Davies and Ellen Morris. When a young boy he went to live with Lewis Morris in Cardiganshire and rendered service to his uncle both in that county and subsequently in London in connection with the industrial undertakings and
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander eich cledd clau ' (Brogyntyn 3/437 (397)); for he was fundamentally a soldier, apter in strategy (the only branch of knowledge in which he enriched the family library) than in speculative politics or theology or the sort of diplomacy needed in public affairs when (in archbishop Williams's phrase) ' valour will not do the business.' His brother WILLIAM OWEN (1607 - 1670), who inherited Porkington (now
OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist Born 1572 in Merionethshire. There is no certainty about his family connexions and it is doubtful whether he was the eldest son of Gruffydd Owen of Tal-y-bont, Llanegryn, 4th son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen of Llwyn, Dolgelley. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, 14 December 1590, but left without graduating and went on a tour of the Continent. He is said to have been admitted to membership of
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (bu farw 1555), judge ,' and in revenge was killed, 12 October 1555, on the spot still known as ' Llidiart-y-barwn,' near Mallwyd, Meironnydd. Owen was twice married, and from his first marriage issued an unusually large number of the later gentle families of Merionethshire who appear in the present work; see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 363. From the eldest son, JOHN OWEN of Llwyn, came the Bronclydwr family (see Hugh Owen
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) ). She was born at Barking in 1742 and christened there on 28 November After the death of her mother, c. 1756-8, at Penrhos, where the family lived after the father's death, she and her troublesome brother, John Owen (1741 - 1823), were brought up by their aunt, Susanna Lyster. She made her home at Shrewsbury but spent much of her time in the company of Mrs. Thrale, a distant relation and childhood
OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary Born 2 January 1752 at Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, second son of Nicholas Owen (died 17 August 1785), a graduate (1740) of Jesus College, Oxford, rector of Llansadwrn 1747-50, and of Llandyfrydog with Llanfihangel-tre'r-beirdd 1750-85. The family was of Pencraig, Llangefni; J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 51) gives a table, which can be augmented from Bangor MSS. 4602-7 at U.C.N.W. According to Nicholas
OWEN, ROBERT (1834 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born in 1834, son of Robert Owen of Neuadd Ddu, Blaenau Ffestiniog; his mother being of the Tyddynllwyn family, Llanfrothen. After having been at Bala C.M. College (1857-61) he won the Dr. Williams scholarship at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1865. He was minister of the churches at Pennal and Maethlon, Meironnydd (1865-99). He was a capable writer and historian and published a
OWEN, ROBERT (1858 - 1885), schoolmaster and poet parents to Llwyn Gloddaeth, a farm about a mile inland from Barmouth. The father did not succeed as a farmer and the family lived later in Barmouth. Here Robert Owen went to the newly-opened British School, becoming in time, an assistant teacher at that school. He also learnt some French, German, Italian, and Spanish, being assisted by a Frenchman, a good linguist, who had settled in Barmouth. He did
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Meudwy, Gwilym Glan Llwchwr; 1841 - 1902), rhymester and tramp Born in Aber Cenfi, Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire, 23 July 1841, son of William and Sarah Owen. The family hailed from Montgomeryshire and the father was a weaver in Cil-y-cwm, Llanwrda and Llandovery before moving to a woollen factory in Cwmllwchwr in 1836. According to Watcyn Wyn (Y Diwygiwr, 1902, 262) William Owen was the great-grandson of John Owen (1757 - 1829), Machynlleth, author of the long

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