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OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda Born 23 July 1792 in London, son of William Owen Pughe by his wife (Sarah) Elizabeth. The family moved, whilst Aneurin Owen was still a child of about 8, to the parish of Nantglyn, Denbighshire, where the father had recently been left a small estate (together with property in Merioneth) by a relative, the Rev. Rice Pughe. Though Aneurin Owen was sent to Friars School, Bangor, he received most of
OWEN, ATHELSTAN (1676 - 1731) Rhiwsaeson, He was born in 1676 (christened 26 November); on his family, see Mont. Coll., xxii, 35-43. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1693, but did not graduate; was sheriff of Merioneth in 1726; died 14 August 1731, and was buried at Towyn, Merioneth. U.C.N.W. Library Bangor MS. 7056 (1-75) contains English verse written by him, headed 'the second part,' and belonging to the years 1711- c. 1729
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet Born in June 1784 at Gaerwen, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire - Gaerwen is a farmhouse situated on the right-hand side of the road leading from Ynys station to Llangybi, in Eifionydd. He received his early education in private schools at Llangybi, Llanystumdwy, and Penmorfa, and, after a short period in an English school at Bangor-iscoed, he returned home to Gaerwen. His brother, Owen, kept a shop
OWEN, DAVID (Brutus; 1795 - 1866), editor and littérateur . During his apprenticeship he became a Baptist and decided to enter the ministry. He spent a year at the Baptist Academy at Bristol before settling at Aber, between Bangor and Llanfairfechan, as a schoolmaster and lay preacher. After three years he moved to Llyn to take charge of the chapels of Tal-y-graig, Galltraeth, Tyndonnen, and Rhoshirwaun, and he was ordained as a minister. He made his home at
OWEN, DAVID SAMUEL (1887 - 1959), minister (Presb.) Born 12 March 1887 at Ruthin, Denbighshire, son of Samuel and Harriet Owen. He was educated in the elementary schools at Ruthin and Abergele; Abergele county school; University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.); and Aberystwyth Theological College. He began to preach in 1905 in Bethlehem chapel, Colwyn Bay; he was ordained in 1913, and served as minister of Siloh, Llanelli (1913-15
OWEN, ELIAS (1833 - 1899), cleric and antiquary Wales Chronicle, and in Archæologia Cambrensis, under the title Arvona Antiqua, 1866, 1867 (with map), 1872. While at Llanllechid he married Margaret Pierce. In 1871 he took the degree of B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin, proceeding M.A. in 1878. Ordained deacon in 1871 (priested 1872) by the bishop of Bangor, he became curate of Llanwnnog, Montgomeryshire, whence, in 1875, he moved to Holy Trinity
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, Sir HUGH (1804 - 1881), educationist Wales also. In August 1846 he became honorary secretary of the Cambrian Educational Society; and on 17 March 1847 he published another letter setting forward the advisability of British schools for Wales. In 1856 he was one of the chief supporters of the movement to establish the Normal College at Bangor, and later he was largely instrumental in securing a similar institution for women at Swansea. In
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian 1913 Marian Owen of Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, a teacher at Bangor county school. He died 18 March 1953 at Rhosyr, Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.
OWEN, HUGH (1575? - 1642) Gwenynog,, translator that was about mid-summer 1624. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bulkeley of Groesfechan, by whom he had two sons and seven daughters. He was the uncle of William Griffith, D.C.L., chancellor of Bangor and St Asaph and of George Griffith, bishop of St Asaph. He is chiefly remembered as the author of Dilyniad Crist, the first translation into Welsh of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi
OWEN, HUW PARRI (1926 - 1996), philosopher and theologian University College, Bangor, to become a lecturer in the New Testament. In 1962 he joined Professor Hywel D. Lewis, previously of University College, Bangor, at King's College, London, as a lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion and he was promoted to Reader in 1963. He was elected to the Chair in Christian Doctrine there in 1971 and remained in it until his retirement in 1983. The publication which first

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