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OWEN, DAVID (Dafydd y Garreg Wen; 1711 - 1741), harpist Christened 27 January 1711, son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Gwen (Roberts), Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 353). He attained fame both as harpist and as the reputed composer of the airs called ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen ' ('David of the White Rock'), ' Codiad yr Ehedydd ' ('The rising of the lark'), and ' Difyrrwch gwyr
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet , named Gaerwen, at Pwllheli, and owing to his brother's ill-health, Dewi and his mother moved to Pwllheli in 1827. He still held the farm at Gaerwen, and when his brother died in 1837, he returned home, and remained there to the end of his days. His bardic tutor was Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), his neighbour, who lived at Betws Fawr, near Gaerwen. At the age of 21 Dewi won the Gwyneddigion
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet one of the secretaries of the Tremadoc eisteddfod in 1851. As a bard he was not as eminent as his contemporaries, Dewi Wyn and Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu); but he composed a number of short poems and englynion, and he wrote scores of epitaphs at the request of friends and neighbours. His poems and essays were published in a volume entitled Cell Meudwy by his friend Robert Isaac Jones
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician George's family group of M.P.'s who opposed the formation of the national government in 1931. Between 1926 and 1931 he served as Liberal Party whip, and during September and October 1931 he held the position of Comptroller of the Household and acted as Liberal Party Chief Whip. He was defeated by Goronwy Roberts (Lab.) in the general election of 1945, and decided not to contest a parliamentary election
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet Jones of Llanrwst published an edition of Goronwy Owen's works in 1860 with the title Gronoviana; the Rev. Robert Jones of Rotherhithe (1810 - 1879), another edition in 1876; and Isaac Foulkes, his Holl Waith Barddonol Goronwy Owen in 1878. Among later editions of Goronwy Owen's works are 'Cyfres y Fil,' 1902; Cywyddau Goronwy Owen, W. J. Gruffydd, 1907; Y Farn Fawr … a Dinistr Jerusalem; Clasuron
OWEN, GRIFFITH (1647 - 1717), Quaker and medical man son of Robert and Jane Owen, Dolserau, Dolgelley. He served as a medical man in Lancashire for some time before he emigrated in 1684, with his aged parents, to Pennsylvania, where he settled in Merion ('Welsh Tract'). He travelled much on behalf of his faith and it would seem that William Penn had a high opinion of him. He returned in 1695, in which year he published Our Ancient Testimony, to
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar ) of Beaumaris, and the essay was the work of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. Still, Owen certainly brought out the 2nd edition of Mona Antiqua Restaurata, by Henry Rowlands (1655 - 1723). He was a prominent Cymmrodor, and acted as reviser of the papers sent up to be read before the society. There is much talk of him in the Morris Letters. He was a neighbour and friend of Richard Morris's - not that this
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor , Meth. Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 41-2 and 64-5. Not unnaturally, Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, in his Drych yr Amseroedd (61-2, 77-8), while recognizing Owen's ability and his eloquent preaching, has much to say against him - not that we need swallow all the old chronicler's stories of the divine punishments which fell upon the chancellor. Yet, on the other hand, we cannot ignore the judgement pronounced upon him
OWEN, JOHN (1864 - 1953), minister (Presb. C.W.) and author . He also published Cofiant a gweithiau David Roberts y Rhiw (1908); Rolant y teiliwr ac ysgrifau eraill (1920); Y Cyfundeb a'i neges: the Connexion and its message, in English and Welsh (1935). He edited volumes of the sermons of John Williams, Brynsiencyn (1922 and 1923), and Thomas Charles Williams (1928 and 1929). He also published a textbook on the journeys of St. Paul (1902), and a commentary
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture Born 1 August 1807 at Gwindy, Llecheiddior, Eifionydd, son of William Owen and his wife Margaret, who was a niece of Robert Jones (1745-1829) of Rhos-lan. He was an early and a wide reader, and as a youth wrote in Seren Gomer on behalf of Catholic Emancipation. He went to several schools, including that kept by Evan Richardson and a school at Chester where Glan Alun (Thomas Jones, 1811 - 1866
OWEN, JOHN (1564? - 1628?), epigrammatist published between 1606 and 1613, nothing is known of his life after 1595. He may have given up his post to live on patronage. But, as no other headmaster is known at Warwick until 1628? he may have taught there to his death in that year and Wood's statement that he died in 1622 may be doubted. His patrons included lady Arabella Stuart, the prince of Wales, and Robert Cecil. His epigrams were best sellers

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