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NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales George Noakes was born on September 13 1924 in Penygaer, Bwlchyllan, Cardiganshire, one of the three children of a Welsh-speaking mother, Elizabeth Mary née Lewis and father, David John Noakes, colliery worker and later farmer, from English-speaking south Pembrokeshire. This factor gave him an unforced and natural bilingualism which made him a fluent and attractive preacher in both languages. As
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario David Ormsby-Gore was born in London on 20 May 1918, the second son of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (1885-1964), fourth Baron Harlech, landowner and politician, and his wife Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred (née Gascoigne-Cecil, 1891-1980), a daughter of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury. His older brother and the barony of Harlech's heir presumptive, Owen Gerard Cecil Ormsby-Gore (1916-1935) died
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker Born in London, 11 April 1885, son of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore (who became 3rd Baron Harlech in 1904) and Lady Margaret Ethel (née Gordon). The family home was Brogyntyn, near Oswestry, Salop. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and in 1913 he married Lady Beatrice Cecil, a member of a prominent Conservative family. In 1910 he was elected M.P. for the Borough of Denbigh by only eight votes
teulu OWEN Plas-du, attended (in company with Humphrey Llwyd) to the Diet of Augsburg (1566) and by whom he was drawn into plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots. Implication in the Ridolfi Plot drove him into hiding, first with the Lloyd s of Llwyn-y-maen and other recusant families round Oswestry, then via Spain to Brussels (1572), where, as a Spanish pensioner, he advised the Netherlands government on English affairs
teulu OWEN Peniarth, Elizabeth, daughter of Howel ap Jenkin ab Iorwerth of the neighbouring house of Ynysmaengwyn, and whose heir was known as DAVID LLOYD (will dated 11 July 1570). David Lloyd married Nest (or Annes), daughter of Gruffydd ap John ap Gruffydd of Cefnamwlch, Caernarfonshire but as he died without issue his sister, ELIZABETH, became the heiress of Peniarth By her husband, GRUFFYDD OWEN, of Tal-y-bont, Llanegryn
teulu OWEN Bodeon, Bodowen, old order). His son, the first Sir HUGH OWEN, was a man of law, and recorder of the town of Carmarthen; this position enabled him to win the hand of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Wirriott of Orielton in Pembroke. When the Civil War broke out the attitude of the family, both in Anglesey and Pembrokeshire, was indeterminate and non-committal; he would be a clever man who could say whether
teulu OWEN Orielton, Cynddelw, said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd; Elizabeth Wirriot was the daughter and sole heiress of George Wirriot and his wife Jane, daughter of John Philipps of Picton castle. (The Wirriot family had been settled in Pembrokeshire since the 12th century; Giraldus Gambrensis mentions a Stephen of that name. A David Wirriot of the barony of Pembroke was one of the twelve jurors for the subsidy of
OWEN, ANEURIN (1792 - 1851), Welsh historical scholar and editor of the Laws of Hywel Dda his education at the hands of his father, who was anxious that his son should be interested in the Welsh historical and literary studies for which he, the father, was already well-known. Aneurin Owen made his home, on reaching manhood, at Tan-y-gyrt, Nantglyn. He married, 1820, Jane Lloyd, also of Nantglyn. He became one of the assistant Tithe commissioners for England and Wales, afterwards becoming
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist Born c. 1552 at Henllys, in the parish of Nevern, north Pembrokeshire, the eldest son of William Owen (c. 1486 - 1574), a successful lawyer who purchased the barony of Cemais of John Tuchet, lord Audley, in 1543, and became lord of Cemais. George Owen's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea, brother to William, first earl of Pembroke of the Herbert line (second creation
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OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen was born at Tŷ Uchaf, a farm in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, on 6 November 1944, the second son of Henry Lloyd Owen (1906-1982), farmer and Pest Officer for Merioneth and Gwynedd, and Jane Ellen (Jin, 1905-1989), a teacher who also kept the village shop and post office at her original home, Broncaereini in Sarnau after the family had moved there in 1945 following
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician thereafter. Owen served as Deputy Lieutenant for Caernarfonshire in 1936, and was a member of the county council for many years. He succeeded D. Lloyd George as an alderman of the council in May 1945. He was especially interested in the county's needs and problems, and was ever ready to devote his time to attempts to solve them. He chaired the Agricultural Wages Committee for Anglesey and Caernarfonshire

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