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NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist
NORTH, FREDERICK JOHN (1889 - 1968), geologist, educator, historian of science and museum curator contains a wealth of historical material and he also wrote monographs on a number of the nineteenth-century pioneers of geology - W.D. Conybeare, Dean William Buckland, Charles Lyell and particularly H.T. de la Beche, founder of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, the Museum of Practical Geology and the Royal School of Mines. He contributed many items to DWB. He maintained an active interest in the
NOTT, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1845), soldier Born 20 January 1782, near Neath, son of Charles Nott of Shobdan, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Neath and at Cowbridge grammar school until 1794, when his father became landlord of the Ivy Bush inn at Carmarthen. In 1798 he joined a volunteer corps at Carmarthen and, liking the military life, left in 1800 for India, where he obtained a commission in the Bengal European Regiment. He served in
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history John Thomas of Llanfihangel-Aber-bythych in 1769 under the title Duwioldeb Rhydychain - see the account of the matter in D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 64-6.
O'NEIL, BRYAN HUGH ST. JOHN (1905 - 1954), archaeologist Born 7 August 1905 in London, son of Charles Valentine O'Neil and Mabel Meliora (née Rowe). He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and St. John's College, Oxford (M.A.); elected F.S.A. in 1935. He married in 1939 Helen Evangeline Donovan of Bourton-on-the-water, Gloucestershire, who was also an archaeologist. He was appointed to the Office of Works in 1930 as Assistant Inspector of Ancient
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker Born in London, 11 April 1885, son of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore (who became 3rd Baron Harlech in 1904) and Lady Margaret Ethel (née Gordon). The family home was Brogyntyn, near Oswestry, Salop. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and in 1913 he married Lady Beatrice Cecil, a member of a prominent Conservative family. In 1910 he was elected M.P. for the Borough of Denbigh by only eight votes
teulu OWEN Plas-du, Rome, dying there on 30 May 1618. He kept in touch with Welsh affairs and frequently used Welsh in his secret correspondence. Dying a bachelor, he disinherited his Protestant nephew, John Owen the epigrammatist, in favour of his Catholic nephew Charles Gwynne, who commemorated him in the mural inscription at the English College quoted in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 130-1. ROBERT OWEN 1570), (fl
teulu OWEN Cefn-hafodau, Glangynwydd, Glansevern, Llangurig Service, Civil Administration, 1766, married Anne, daughter and heiress of Charles Davies of Llifior (Berriw), and had three sons: (a) Sir ARTHUR DAVIS OWEN (1752? - 1816), sheriff of Montgomery LawPublic and Social Service, Civil Administration, 1814, a lawyer, took an active part in the public life of his shire (deputy-lieutenant, chairman of the quarter sessions), and was second in command of its
OWEN, CHARLES (bu farw 1746), Dissenting minister and tutor
OWEN, DANIEL (1836 - 1895), novelist were also competitive meetings held in the town. About this time he translated an American novel, Twelve Nights in a Bar Room, his translation being published in a fortnightly periodical called Charles o'r Bala. He also wrote descriptions of some inhabitants of Mold to a South Wales periodical - some of these are included in Straeon y Pentan. At the same time he contributed to Welsh and English
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet the sadness of loss. It was the poems of 1969 which really brought him national recognition, and the irony of having composed the poem Fy Ngwlad (My Country) for the very Eisteddfod in which Charles the Prince of Wales made an appearance. Six years later in 1975 he won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod in Cricieth for his poem Afon (River) which describes his boyhood experiences playing on the
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' . About the same time Hugh Owen was busy distributing the books that were published by Thomas Gouge and the Welsh Trust; no less than twenty-four of these, the works of Charles Edwards for the most part, came to Llanegryn alone. His lot was a hard one, says the Nonconformist's Memorial, until the coming of the Toleration Act, though he was saved from the heaviest penalties by the influence of his many

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