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NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist Born 24 August 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glamorganshire. Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he died 16 October 1858. The great majority of his pictures are
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect with Henry Harold Hughes, and The Old Churches of Snowdonia (1924, with H.H. Hughes). He died 9 February 1941.
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet published in 1867 under the name Cerddi Cystudd by his brother, the Rev. Henry Oliver.
OWAIN ap CADWGAN (bu farw 1116), prince of Powys Wales. Meanwhile, after two short periods of exile in Ireland, he had succeeded his father, Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, as ' king in Powys (1111). After the royal expedition into Wales in 1114, Henry I, who had always shown considerable patience with Owain, took the precaution of taking him to Normandy where he was knighted in 1115. He left no direct descendants.
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 1260), prince of Gwynedd eldest son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Some years a prisoner of his brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Henry III secured to him a portion of Snowdonia by the treaty of Woodstock (1247). Again deprived by Llywelyn after Bryn Derwin (1254), he spent another long period in confinement, until Llywelyn was obliged to release him after the humiliating defeat of
OWAIN BROGYNTYN (fl. 1160-1188), prince of Powys He was a natural son of Madog ap Maredudd, the last king of Powys. Brought up at Porkington, near Oswestry (Madog held the lordship of Oswestry from 1149 to 1157), a township known among the Welsh as Brogyntyn, he appears to have continued on very good terms with Henry II after his father's death in 1160, for he is recorded as being a royal pensioner as late as 1169. He was still alive in 1188
OWAIN CYFEILIOG (c. 1130 - 1197), prince and poet royal castle of Carreghofa. In 1165 he is found with other princes of Powys and the other Welsh provinces in the great muster under Owain Gwynedd facing Henry II's attack in the Berwyn district. The next year, however, he again joined with Owain Fychan to drive Iorwerth Goch from Mochnant, which they divided between them by a line which still remains as the border of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' later years. Some time was spent in London acquiring - at the Inns of Court - some of the social graces of the courtier. After a further period of apprenticeship as a soldier, he served the crown in several campaigns: he certainly accompanied the Scottish expedition in 1385 and, in 1387, may have supported Henry Bolingborke - the future king Henry IV - at Radcot Bridge. In 1386 he appeared as witness
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd its hinterland submitted to him, in 1146, and in 1149 Tegeingl and Iâl were annexed to Gwynedd. In 1157, with changed conditions in England, Owain suffered his only decisive reverse at the hands of Henry II. The expedition into North Wales undertaken by Henry in that year, though indecisive in its military results, marks a positive stage in the relations of England and Wales. Deprived of Tegeingl
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
teulu OWEN Plas-du, pressure of creditors, e.g. Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and Sir William Maurice. Thomas Owen's third son was JOHN OWEN (died 1622), the epigrammatist. HUGH OWEN (1538 - 1618), Roman Catholic conspirator Religion, was a younger son of Owen ap Gruffydd, educated at Lincoln's Inn (21 April 1556), and employed in the household of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel and lord of Oswestry, whom he
teulu OWEN Bodeon, Bodowen, the second Sir Hugh favoured the king or the Parliament, so taciturn was he, and so close he kept his secrets. In Anglesey the family was represented by colonel HUGH OWEN and HENRY OWEN of Maesoglan, two brothers, and two cousins to the second Sir Hugh; there is a striking memorial to the colonel on one of the walls of Llangadwaladr church, erected by his wife Ann in 1660, leaving the undoubted

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