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teulu MOSTYN Mostyn Hall, 1641. Among the other sons of Sir Roger Mostyn were William Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor, and Richard Mostyn (died 1627), soldier, who saw much service in Ireland, the Low Countries, etc. Sir THOMAS MOSTYN (died 1641), of whom there are details in the History and in the Calendar of Wynn Papers, married (1623) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Whitelock, chief justice of Chester, and lived after his
MOSTYN, AMBROSE (1610 - 1663), a Puritan preacher of Bangor, and grandson to Sir Piers Mostyn of Talacre; that is, son of a high Anglican and grandson of a Roman Catholic. He entered Brasenose, Oxford, as doctoris filius, graduated B.A. early in January 1630, and soon developed, against all the outlook and traditions of his house, into a pronounced Puritan. Before the wars broke out the Commons had named him as Puritan lecturer at Pennard in
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric He was born in 1691, one of the Cefndeuddwr family by Trawsfynydd, a branch of the ancient house of Nannau. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1710, graduated B.A. in 1714, M.A. in 1719; he was made vicar of Clynnog in 1718, and rector of Llanaelhaearn in 1725; Foster adds that he was also canon of Bangor. He was deeply endowed with a fine liberality of spirit, which is not at all
NEWCOME, RICHARD (1779 - 1857), cleric priest by bishop Horsley of S. Asaph in September 1803. He was licensed to the curacy of Wrexham in March 1804, and in June of the same year became warden of Ruthin and rector of Llanfwrog. These offices he held for forty-seven years. He was also canon of Bangor (1821), and archdeacon of Merioneth (1834) (the deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd was then in the diocese of Bangor), and rector of Clocaenog (1829-34
NEWELL, RICHARD (1785 - 1852), farmer and Calvinistic Methodist preacher there was a marked improvement in order and propriety throughout the district. In 1831 he moved to Plas-bach, Meifod, and in 1846 to Cwm, where he died 22 June 1852. Together with Morris Davies (1796 - 1876), Bangor, he published a periodical for young people and children, entitled Pethau Newydd a Hen neu Drysorfa i'r Ysgol Sabothol. This publication ran for four years (1826-9), and was probably the
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party well as a farmer. The boy was reared in an independent, cultured and anti-establishment community. A younger contemporary was D.J. Davies, born in the small holding to which the Nicholas family moved in 1880, and who became the minister of Capel Als, Llanelli. Another from the same area was Thomas Rees, pioneer of the Labour Party and of adult education and Principal of Bala-Bangor College. T.E
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1844 - 1885), Independent minister Born at Holyhead in April 1844. He was educated by his minister, William Griffith (1801 - 1881). In due course, he went to the Normal College, Bangor, to be trained as a school teacher. In 1862, at the end of his course, he became a teacher at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, and began to preach in Horeb chapel. He then moved to Llanengan school in the Llŷn peninsula, received a call to take charge of the
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1943), minister (Congl.) Born 23 December 1866, at 14 Vrondeg Street, Bangor, son of William Nicholson. He was admitted to the Memorial College at Brecon in 1886 and he spent the first year at the University College, Cardiff. In May 1889 he was ordained minister of St. Paul's Church Swansea. In 1892 he became minister of Salem church, Porthmadog, and remained there until 1940, when ill health and defective eyesight
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect Born at Leicester in 1871, son of Thomas and Fanny North. He was educated at Uppingham school and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. In 1897 he married Ida Maude Davies, and they had one daughter. Settling at Llanfairfechan he became interested in the old buildings of Snowdonia. He published The old churches of Arllechwedd, Bangor, 1906, The old cottages of Snowdonia (1908, jointly
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd climax of his career, after the general Welsh uprising of 1165, he destroyed the royal strongholds of Tegeingl and once more established the power of Aberffraw along the estuary of the Dee. He died on 28 November 1170, and was buried in the cathedral church of Bangor. Though it was Owain who finally accepted the principle of Angevin overlordship over Gwynedd, he regarded himself as no ordinary vassal
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist Chlwb Awen a Chân (1946), Bywyd, gwaith ac arabedd Anthropos (1953), articles in Y Drysorfa and Y Drysorfa, Cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru (1946), and the standard work Hanes y Ddrama yng Nghymru 1850-1943 (1948) which is a shortened version of the essay that won him the prize in the national eisteddfod at Bangor in 1943. His first important prize in the national eisteddfod was for an essay entitled
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.

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