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OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' He was of the same family as 'baron' Lewis Owen, the great divine Dr. John Owen (1616 - 1683), a distant relative, the chief people of Merioneth amongst his friends and acquaintances. He matriculated at Oxford (Jesus College, 1660), began to preach, but he was silenced (to use Calamy's word) by the Act of Uniformity, 1662. He joined the Puritan congregation of Wrexham, becoming a teaching elder
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian Lewis Morris (Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn) 1701-1765 (1951), The history of Anglesey constabulary (1952) and Hanes plwyf Niwbwrch (1952). The latter was a prize-winning essay in a competition at Dolgellau national eisteddfod, 1949, on the history of any Welsh parish. Not the least of his contributions, however, was his comprehensive index to J.H. Davies (ed.), The Morris letters (1907, 1909) which appeared in
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
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Born 1 November 1654 at Brynmeini, Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire, second son of John Owen. His mother, whose name is not known, was a niece of bishop Thomas Howell (1588 - 1646) and of the letter-writer James Howell; Bryn was her hereditament, owned by her grandfather Thomas Howell, vicar of Conwil Elvet and Aber-nant, and previously curate of Llangamarch; Anthony Wood was in error when he said that
OWEN, JEREMY (fl. 1704-1744), Presbyterian minister and writer was, however, a strong hyper-Calvinist and 'congregationalist' element at Henllan, led by Lewis Thomas of Bwlch-y-sais, another of the teaching elders. Repeated attempts by neighbouring ministers to compose their disputes (1707-9) ended in the expulsion of Lewis Thomas and his party, who founded a new congregation at Rhyd-y-ceisiaid. On D. J. Owen's death (7 October 1710), his son Jeremy, a young
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor by a fellow- cleric, John Lewis of Plas Llanfihangel (Tre'r Beirdd); when he heard of John Owen's appointment as chancellor, Lewis wrote that he was ' famous for a troublesome litigious temper, and of an obscure mean family; … strange that the bishop was so imposed upon in appointing him ' (Henllys MS. 630 at U.C.N.W.).
OWEN, JOHN (1616 - 1683), Puritan (Independent) divine Griffith Owen of Talhenbont, Llanegryn, Meironnydd, and great-grandson of 'baron' Lewis Owen (died 1555). He was also first cousin to the mother of Hugh Owen of Bronclydwr (1639-1700) - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 323. These facts have been rather fancifully embroidered by some who have claimed that Hugh Owen's Dissent resulted from his 'uncle's' influence upon him during his Oxford career; but the
OWEN, JOHN (bu farw 1759), poet, harpist, letter-writer nephew of the Morris family of Anglesey. Born probably at Holyhead during the early thirties of the 18th century (the parish records before 1737 are missing), the son of Owen Davies and Ellen Morris. When a young boy he went to live with Lewis Morris in Cardiganshire and rendered service to his uncle both in that county and subsequently in London in connection with the industrial undertakings and
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OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist Born 1572 in Merionethshire. There is no certainty about his family connexions and it is doubtful whether he was the eldest son of Gruffydd Owen of Tal-y-bont, Llanegryn, 4th son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen of Llwyn, Dolgelley. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, 14 December 1590, but left without graduating and went on a tour of the Continent. He is said to have been admitted to membership of
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (bu farw 1555), judge , 1639 - 1700). The second son, HUGH LEWIS OWEN of Cae'rberllan, Dolgelley, a lawyer, would appear to have been the ancestor of the Tan-y-gadair family (see Henry Owen, 1716 - 1795), but the pedigrees are inconclusive on this point. The third son, EDWARD OWEN of Hengwrt (Griffith, op. cit. 201), was the grandfather of the antiquary Robert Vaughan and the ancestor of the later Hengwrt and Nannau
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