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OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist erected a monument in 1902. When the International Labour Office was founded in Geneva the gift of the people of Wales was appropriately a bust of Robert Owen by Sir William Goscombe John for the library. Robert Owen married Caroline Dale, daughter of David Dale of Glasgow. Their children settled in America, the eldest, ROBERT DALE OWEN (1801 - 1877) served as the representative of the United States at
OWEN, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1486-1574), lawyer son of Rhys ab Owen of Henllys, Pembrokeshire, and Jane, daughter of Owen Ellyott, of Earwere, in the same county, and father of George Owen of Henllys. He was a near cousin of Sir Thomas Elyot. After a suit lasting nineteen years he successfully established his claim to the barony of Kemes (Cemais) in Pembrokeshire. He was a member of the Middle Temple and shared chambers with Sir Anthony
OWEN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1830), Evangelical cleric Port. The bishop of Hereford gave him the vicarage of Almeley on 11 December 1816; to that was added, on 6 March 1823, the rectory of Ryme Intrinsica, Sherborne, of which the prince of Wales (afterwards king George IV) was the patron. He often visited Pembrokeshire and, when his father died, became the owner of Frongoch. He was an active supporter of the Church Missionary Society. He died 4 February
OWEN, WILLIAM DAVID (1874 - 1925), lawyer and journalist
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant Born 16 February 1886 at Holyhead, Anglesey, son of Thomas Owen. He entered the Marine Department of the London and North Western Railway in 1906, and later joined the personal staff of David Lloyd George, for whom he undertook several important missions. At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Engineers and went to Canada in 1917 where he represented the War Office as director of
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer some idea that a Welsh name would not be politically acceptable within the profession. He turned professional on 1 September 1976, with the former boxer Dai Gardiner as his manager, and began his training programme in the New Tredegar Gym in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his home in Merthyr. In his first professional fight on 30 September 1976, he defeated his fellow Welshman George Sutton
PADARN (fl. c. 560), Celtic saint A reputed contemporary of David and Teilo, is associated with a small group of churches in the counties of Cardigan and Radnor. Very little authentic material concerning him can be obtained from his solitary 'Life' found in the collection of medieval manuscripts known as B.M. MS. Vespasian A, xiv. In this 'Vita' he is said to have come from Brittany, but since Paternus was the latinized name of
teulu PAGET (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen ) from 1790 to 1794, and BERKELEY THOMAS PAGET (1780 - 1842) from 1807 to 1818; while FREDERICK PAGET (1807 - 1866), the eldest son of Berkeley Paget, and GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK PAGET (1818 - 1880), the marquess's third son, were members for Beaumaris, 1832-47 and 1847-57 respectively.
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian Son of Alfred Palmer, coachbuilder, of Thetford, and of Harriet Catherine, daughter of John Neobard, wine merchant; born 10 July 1847 in a part of Thetford then attached to Suffolk, now in Norfolk, he attended the local grammar school (1855-60) and a private academy kept by Morgan Lloyd, an Independent minister who awoke his interest in natural science (1860-2). After a brief trial as pupil
PALMER, HENRY (1679 - 1742), Independent minister affect the district, Palmer again gave proof of his good will; Howel Harris stayed under his roof on the night of 10 March 1740; and Palmer was one of the signatories of a letter (Trevecka Letter 231) inviting Harris to return to the neighbourhood. Palmer died 12 December 1742. One of his sons, GEORGE PALMER (died 1750), became a minister at Swansea; another, JOHN PALMER, was for many a long year an
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Catholics, giving rise to a debate in the House of Commons, 1813. Like his father, he took a keen interest in Welsh studies and antiquities, though he understood little of the language. He lent Evan Evans's transcripts to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and William Owen Pughe for the publication of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and the first volume, 1801, was dedicated to him. He was also a patron of David

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1321 - 1332 of 1926 for "david lloyd george"