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OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist the Court of Naples; DAVID DALE OWEN (1807 - 1860) made the first geological survey of the Middle West; RICHARD DALE OWEN was professor of natural science in Nashville University and won some distinction in the American Civil War.
OWEN, WILLIAM RICHARD (1906 - 1982), pioneer of Welsh broadcasting W. R. Owen was born in Holyhead on the 22nd of July 1906, the son of Captain Richard Griffith Owen (1878-1973) of Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire and his wife Margaret Ann Lewis (1883-1980) of Holyhead. The father ran away to the army at 15, and joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was a Lieutenant in the British Army that invaded the Legation Quarter at Beijing/Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer Johnny Owen was born in Gwaunfarren Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on 7 January 1956, the fourth of eight children of Dick Owens (1927-2013) and his wife Edith (née Hale, born 1927). He was baptized Johnny Richard Owens. The family home was at 12 Heol Bryn Selu, a rented council house on the large Gellideg estate. He took up boxing at the age of eight, frequenting the Merthyr Amateur Club with his
teulu PAINTER, printers The Wrexham printing and publishing business of Marsh (see Marsh, Richard) was bought in at the end of 1795 by JOHN PAINTER. He married, 3 October 1798, Catherine, daughter of Hugh Burton, Wrexham. John Painter was succeeded by his son, also JOHN PAINTER, who was killed by a fall from his horse, 15 October 1833, aged 32; John Painter, junior, was succeeded by his brother, THOMAS PAINTER, who sold
PARK, JAMES (1636 - 1696), Quaker about Wrexham … and Welsh-Pool, … whom formerly I have known and walked with in a fellowship and worship - an appeal to his Nonconformist friends to ' seek the light.' This work does not appear in the list of his (seventeen) works, and he never published it; but he left a copy of it at Cloddiau Cochion, and Richard Davies (1635 - 1708) incorporated it in his own autobiography. Park died at Southwark
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Morgans of Gwent and Ewias and Ystradyw intermarried with the Parrys. On the other hand, there seems little ground for thinking that the conspirator William Parry, who was executed in 1585, was of this family. Nor, again, are the arms of bishop Richard Parry of S. Asaph satisfactory proof of his kinship with the family - to the contrary, see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 387. And there is not the slightest
PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar ' (Cambro-Briton, ii, 369). Later on, Hearne confesses that things were not too good at the Ashmolean, excusing Parry because he was unpaid. A German visited the Ashmolean in 1710, but did not see Parry there - ' the custos, always in the tavern, was too busy guttling and guzzling ' (Mallet, Hist. of the University of Oxford, iii, 22). Parry died in December 1714 - 8 December according to Richard Ellis
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary , e.g. Coffhad am y Parch. Daniel Rowlands, by John Owen, 1839, and The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 1837. Parry wrote the memoir which forms the preface to this book, and he also edited and published Blodau Arfon, sef gwaith Dewi Wyn, 1842. He was a successful competitor on historical essays at eisteddfodau. He published Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles, 1830, which was submitted
PARRY, RHISIART (1665? - 1749), poet stated to have been a native of Dyserth, Flintshire. Examples of his work are found in manuscripts, and also in Blodau-Gerdd Cymry and Y Cydymaith Diddan. Most of his poems are in free metre, and they include religious carols and various ballads. It is not clear whether he is the Richard Parry, school teacher of Ro Wen, who is represented in Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads. It is said that he died in
PARRY, RICHARD (1560 - 1623), bishop and biblical translator Born in 1560, son of John ap Harri, of Pwllhalog, Cwm, Flintshire, and Ruthin, and his wife, Elen ferch Dafydd ap John, of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. Richard Parry was educated at Westminster School under Camden. In 1579 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 5 February 1584. He was ordained a deacon by bishop Robinson of Bangor, 5 April 1584, and on 4 May was instituted to a
PARRY, RICHARD (1710 - 1763) Newborough, poet, schoolmaster, and sexton His published work includes ' Araith Wgan ar Gân ' (Brython, 1863), and also a number of other poems (one of them at least a translation from English) which were published in the 18th century; a list of these is given by Myrddin Fardd in Y Traethodydd, 1886. A carol composed by him is found in NLW MS 1666B (209b); it is also probable that he is the Richard Parry whose poems are found in Bodewryd
PARRY, RICHARD (Gwalchmai; 1803 - 1897), Independent minister, poet, and man of letters Born 19 January 1803 at Llannerch-y-medd. His father, Richard Parry, was a currier and leather manufacturer; his mother (Margaret Williams) was from Gwalchmai, and had inherited a fairly considerable portion from her family; Thomas Parry (1809 - 1874) was his brother; all were Calvinistic Methodists. He received a sound elementary education at a local church school, but left at the age of 12 to

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