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OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister British School, Llangefni. In 1863 he went to Bala C.M. College, but it was very difficult, if not impossible, for one who was already a regular peripatetic evangelist to make much progress as a student. When the good people of Ffestiniog arranged for the principal and the simple student to preach in the same meeting, Dr. Lewis Edwards banished from his mind all adverse criticism of Richard Owen. In
OWEN, ROBERT (bu farw 1685), Quaker grandson of Robert Owen of Dolserau, Dolgelley, who was an attorney in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow and a son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen. In the Civil War he sided with Parliament. He sat on the North Wales Composition Committee in August 1649, was a militia commissioner for Merioneth from May 1651, was appointed for his county (October 1653) by Barebone's Parliament on the only county
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
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary practical interest in collieries, lead-mines, and industrial projects in the Holywell district. William Morris, recommending him to the notice of his brother Lewis in 1761, described him as ' mine mad.' He was lord of the manor of Coleshill and he spent a large proportion of his time in Flintshire. He was sheriff of Flintshire in 1770, and of Anglesey in 1771. He travelled extensively in Wales, England
PARRY, JOHN (1812 - 1874), Calvinistic Methodist minister, college tutor, and editor preacher, the suspicious authorities gave only very tardy consent - indeed, Lewis Edwards admitted Parry to Bala C.M. College (1838) before that consent was given. Between 1841 and 1843 he put in some broken terms at Edinburgh University - broken, because of want of means. But in 1843 Lewis Edwards chose him as his assistant at Bala, where he remained for the rest of his life. He put his duties as tutor
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer for this response was the anger which he felt at what happened following the fire at the bombing range in Llŷn in 1936, when Saunders Lewis was dismissed from his post. Much of this satirical writing was expressed in a new metrical form, sonnets whose rhythm depended on combining three-syllable feet with the traditional iambics. Williams Parry was well versed in English poetry, and came under the
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author Born 18 December 1910 in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, the eldest of the three children of Lewis Thomas and his wife Mary Emiah (née Jones). Though registered as Emiah Jane, she was known throughout her life as Amy. Educated at Pontyberem school, Llanelli Girls' Grammar School, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she graduated in 1932 with first class honours in Welsh, she
PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician Evans: one of his contemporaries was the composer Grace Williams. He taught at the Cathedral School in Llandaff and at Lewis School, Pengam before being appointed a lecturer in the Education Department of the University College in Cardiff. He continued his music studies, gaining an LRAM diploma in piano playing, studying conducting under Adrian Boult in London, and graduating D.Mus. (Wales) in 1941
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar his pacifism, favouring Timothy Lewis instead. In indignation, Parry-Williams withdrew from Welsh scholarship and in the autumn of 1919 enrolled on a first-year science course at Aberystwyth, with a view to a career in medicine. As can be gleaned from the essay, 'Y Flwyddyn Honno', this was one of the happiest years of his life: he gained the best results of his year and won a scholarship to study
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher Twickenham in 1966 playing alongside Abertillery club mates Haydn Morgan and Allan Lewis and it was his second half try that ensured a Welsh victory over England (11-6). Many in Wales were left angry when they were expecting Pask to be selected as captain of the 1966 British Lions, but the selection committee opted for the Scottish forward Michael Campbell-Lamerton instead. Despite the outcry the team
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure Born 21 November 1900 in Kington, Herefordshire, to Francis George Holton Payne (1865-1909) and Hannah Elizabeth Payne (née Lewis) (1867-1937). His father was a Welsh-speaking native of Cardiff who owned a draper's shop in Kington and who died when Ffransis Payne was nine years old. From the local elementary school he went to Lady Hawkins' School, Kington, where his imagination was aroused by 'a
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller : the Morris brothers of Anglesey (Richard, William, and Lewis), Hugh Davies, the author of Welsh Botanology, John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys, who accompanied him on all his Welsh travels ('To his great skill in the language and antiquities of our country I am myself much indebted'), Moses Griffith, a native of Bryncroes, Llyn, his faithful servant and self-taught draughtsman who travelled

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