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MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander Wem (11 September 1643), Oswestry (23 June 1644) and eventually Shrewsbury (22 February 1645). On 12 May 1645 he succeeded Sir Thomas Myddelton as commander-in-chief for North Wales, with the rank of general, and after preventing the relief of Chester by defeating Sir William Vaughan near Denbigh (1 December 1645) he reduced successively the royalist garrisons of Ruthin, Caernarvon, Beaumaris
NENNIUS (fl. c. A.D. 800), monk and antiquary sections or chapters, which can be grouped conveniently as follows (cf. the Mommsen-Lot text): (a) The Preface; (b) The Six Ages of the World, 1-6; (c) The History proper, § §7-56; (d) The Anglo-Saxon Genealogies, etc., § §57-65; (e) Computations and the twenty-eight Cities of Britain, § 66; (f) The Marvels of Britain, etc., § §67-76. With the exception of the preface all these sections are found
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party message. He became known as 'The People's Poet' and he won 17 chairs during his time at Glais. On 1 December 1913 the diacons of Ebenezer, Llangybi, and Bethlehem, Llanddewi Brefi invited him to be their minister. The members of Glais chapel met Christmas afternoon to consider the invitation and unanimously decided to ask him to remain but he resolved to go and he left Glais on 11 January 1914. He
NORTH, FREDERICK JOHN (1889 - 1968), geologist, educator, historian of science and museum curator (1925); Coal, and the coalfields in Wales (1926); The evolution of the Bristol Channel with special reference to the coast of South Wales (1929); Limestones, their origins, distribution, and uses (1930); Studies in the origin of the scenery of Wales, 1 - The river scenery at the head of the Vale of Neath (1930); and, with Bruce Campbell and Richenda Scott, Snowdonia: The National Park of Wales (1948
NOTT, Sir WILLIAM (1782 - 1845), soldier India, with a brief furlough in 1822 which he spent at Carmarthen, until his retirement through ill-health in 1844. His most famous exploit was the command of a force in the first Afghan War which marched from Kandahar and defeated the Afghans at Ghuznee in 1842, afterwards forcing its way to Kabul. His retirement was spent at Carmarthen, where he died 1 January 1845; he was buried in S. Peter's
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario driving to north Wales. He died in Shrewsbury hospital the following day, 26 January 1985. He was succeeded by his second son, Francis. If any image encapsulated the fifth Lord Harlech's ability to connect rural Wales with high politics and a global presence, surely it was the image of John Kennedy's widow and siblings at his funeral and burial on 1 February 1985 at the small church at Llanfihangel-y
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd Second son of Gruffudd ap Cynan and Angharad, daughter of Owain ab Edwin, The existence of another Owain ap Gruffydd, known as Owain Cyfeiliog, explains the use of the distinctive style of ' Owain Gwynedd.' He married (1) Gwladus, daughter of Llywarch ap Trahaearn, (2) Christina, his cousin, daughter of Gronw ap Owen ap Edwin, to whom he remained constant despite the active disapproval of the
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Dwr. During her widowhood, the dowager-queen, Catherine of Valois, mother of the boy-king Henry VI, fell in love with her tall, attractive attendant, and though there is no record of the event, all the evidence points to a secret marriage between them in 1429. The children of this union were: (1) Edmund, earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII; (2) Jasper, earl of Pembroke; (3) Owen, a monk of
OWAIN, Syr DAFYDD, cleric and poet few cywyddau by him are preserved in Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 112; Jesus College MSS. 137-8; Cardiff MSS. 12, 64, 84; Llanstephan MS 156; Cwrtmawr MS 5B (i-ii); B.M. Add. MSS. 14873-4, 14966, 14969, 15000, and NLW MS 670D, NLW MS 834B, NLW MS 1560C, NLW MS 2602B, NLW MS 2603B, NLW MS 2692B, NLW MS 5269B, NLW MS 5283B, NLW MS 5474A (Aberdare 1), NLW MS 6434D, NLW MS 6471B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist 'Gweithiau ac athrylith Llew Llwyfo' awarded at Colwyn Bay in 1910. R. Williams Parry won the chair for his ode 'Yr Haf' in the same eisteddfod. A procession was organised, lead by the Nantlle band, to welcome both home from that eisteddfod. He married (1) Claudia Roberts, 12 June 1916; one daughter was born to them. His wife died 29 November 1918. He married (2) in 1921 Enid May Jones from Port Dinorwic
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 Peniarth, , 4th son of baron Lewis Owen, of Dolgelley, Elizabeth was the mother of LEWIS OWEN I (died 1633), who left two daughters (1) MARGARET (died 4 October 1667), the heiress, and (2) Susan, mother of Hugh Owen (1639 - 1700), who was given Bronyclydwr, a few miles from Peniarth. Margaret, by her first husband, Richard Owen of Morben, Machynlleth, was the mother of LEWIS OWEN II (1625 - 1691), who was high

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