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teulu OWEN Bodeon, Bodowen, according to the expert genealogist, bishop Humphrey Humphreys, he was the son of a well-to-do farmer in the parish of Llangadwaladr. The name of a member of a younger branch of Bodeon - Hugh Owen again - was on the books of both Jesus College in Oxford and Jesus College in Cambridge; he became a D.D., and ended his days (died 1810) as rector of Aberffraw, and canon and precentor of Bangor.
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda the prize at the Cymmrodorion Society's eisteddfod held at Welshpool, 8 September 1824. The second prize for a list of manuscripts in North Wales was awarded to Angharad Llwyd; her list had been printed in 1828 in vol. ii of the Transactions; for a letter from Owen to Angharad Llwyd, written 19 January 1831, about a manuscript of Guto'r Glyn, see NLW MS 4857D. Owen showed great interest in Welsh
OWEN, EDWARD HUMPHREY (1850 - 1904) Tŷ Coch,, book-collector and local historian
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 the appointment of her husband by Merioneth County Council. Gerallt's elder brother Geraint (born 1941) won the National Eisteddfod Crown in 2011 and was invested as Archdruid in 2016. Gerallt was educated in the village school referred to by Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) as 'Hen Goleg Bach y Sarnau' (the little college of Sarnau), then at Bala Grammar School for Boys (Ysgol Tŷ Tan Domen) and Bangor
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet 1737, to Friars school, Bangor. There, under the tuition of the headmaster, Edward Bennet, and his assistant, Humphrey Jones, he became a classical scholar. On 20 September 1741 he appealed to Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, one of the trustees of the Lewis Charity, for a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and on 3 June 1742 was accepted by that college as a servitor, being enrolled as a member of the
OWEN, HUMPHREY (1702 - 1768), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Bodley's librarian Born in 1702, son of Humphrey Owen, Gwaelod, Nant-y-meichiaid, Meifod, Montgomeryshire. He matriculated from Jesus 17 November 1718, aged 16; graduated in 1722 (D.D. 1763); and was elected Fellow in 1725. He was given the rectory of Tredington, Worcestershire in 1744, and held it till 1763, despite his appointment as Bodley's librarian in November 1747. In May 1763 he was elected principal of his
OWEN, JOHN (1733 - 1776), Methodist exhorter Born in 1733 at Bwrcwd, in the parish of Ysgeifiog, Flintshire. His parents, who were natives of Aberdaron, Llŷn, had four children - John, Humphrey, Sarah, and Ann. John was a carpenter by trade but was also a gifted poet and, in his younger days, had written interludes and been a popular actor. About 1672, after hearing Daniel Rowland preach at Tŷ Modlen, Llandyrnog, Vale of Clwyd, he turned to
OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales 1894. He was a close friend of Ben Bowen and other young poets. His interest in the eisteddfod persisted throughout his ministry in Trawsfynydd (1898-1902) where he was an influence on Ellis Humphrey Evans ('Hedd Wyn'); and Deiniolen (1902-05) where he became acquainted with Thomas Gwynn Jones and William John Gruffydd. He then moved to be minister of Sardis, Pontypridd (1905-10) and while he was
OWEN, ROBERT (bu farw 1685), Quaker . Robert Owen had been very closely associated with the regicide John Jones (1597? - 1660). A letter to Morgan Llwyd from John Jones in 1651 (NLW MS 11440D, folio 43), partly printed in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd, ii, 291-2, hints that Owen was lacking in 'discretion and Christian prudence', and that his severity was apt to drive people into hypocritical support of the regime - and further, that it would be
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Born between March 1507 and March 1508 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Golden Valley of the River Dore, Ewias / Ewyas, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Myles and his English wife Alice (Milborne). It was a Welsh-speaking household. There are nine bardic poems that refer to Blanche's family: five by Guto'r Glyn and one each by Gwilym Tew, Howel Dafi, Huw Cae Llwyd and Lewys Morgannwg (see article on
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary , e.g. Coffhad am y Parch. Daniel Rowlands, by John Owen, 1839, and The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 1837. Parry wrote the memoir which forms the preface to this book, and he also edited and published Blodau Arfon, sef gwaith Dewi Wyn, 1842. He was a successful competitor on historical essays at eisteddfodau. He published Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles, 1830, which was submitted

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