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MOSTYN, AMBROSE (1610 - 1663), a Puritan preacher him from South to North, for on 7 June 1648 the Plundered Ministers' Committee - there was an earlier but abortive order by the Commons in 1644 - ordered him, together with Morgan Llwyd and Vavasor Powell to proceed on preaching missions to North Wales, drawing their maintenance from the comportionary tithes of six parishes in Arwystli; later, he was named as one of the twenty-five approvers in the
NICHOLAS, JOHN MORGAN (1895 - 1963), musician Morgan Nicholas was born on 4 June 1895 in Pen-y-cae, Port Talbot, the youngest but one of the seven children of Rhys and Margaret Nicholas. His father, a carpenter, who was also a good musician, and precentor at Saron Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Pen-y-cae, came of a family well established in the area and said to be descended from a family of Greek carpenters and musicians shipwrecked on the
NICHOLAS, THOMAS (1816 - 1879), Congregational minister, theological college tutor, and historian , Nicholas had disagreed with some of the promoters and had resigned (for details see Iwan Morgan in The College by the Sea, Aberystwyth, 1928, particularly 257-66). In the meantime he had been busy writing and publishing (a) Middle and High Class Schools, and University Education for Wales, 1863, a work which exerted considerable influence in Wales at the time; (b) Pedigree of the English People, 1868
teulu OWEN Plas-du, from 1587 an uncompromising champion of the Jesuit and Hispanophile wing of the Roman Catholics, as against Welsh fellow-exiles like Thomas Morgan (1543 - 1605) or Owen Lewis, bishop of Cassano, who favoured a Scottish succession to the English throne. Demands from 1574 by the English government for his extradition were consistently repulsed till 1610-11, when he retired to the English College at
OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator crucial. His efforts gained him general respect. His Welsh nonconformist ancestry doubtless influenced his ideals; there was a hint of a Welsh accent in his speech. Shortly before his death, he was made General Secretary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. He married in 1933 Elizabeth Joyce, daughter of E.H. Morgan, Methodist minister. A son and a daughter were born to them. After their
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, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN MORGAN - gweler MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN
OWEN, MORGAN (1585? - 1645), bishop
OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère their father's biography (1907) and the works of Eluned Morgan : Dringo'r Andes (1904), Gwymon y môr (1909), Ar dir a môr (1913). On 9 October 1909 John Owen married Mabel Annie Dawson, and by that time he was well-known as a choir conductor, an elocutionist, witty public speaker and compère at eisteddfodau. He refused an offer to be a compère at the national eisteddfod in Abergavenny in 1913, but he
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister corner of the district, asked for his help and he came to feel the attraction of that small and homely church. Dafydd Morgan's revival (see David Morgan, 1814 - 1883), as it was called, impelled him to offer himself officially as a candidate for the ministry. The authorities saw fit to give him a field of seven churches in which he might preach, and he was given £10 for a course of education at the
OWEN, RICHARD MORGAN (1877 - 1932), Wales and Swansea Rugby scrummage halfback
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

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