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OWEN, GRIFFITH (1647 - 1717), Quaker and medical man controvert the views of George Keith. With his son he discovered a remedy for the ' Barbadoes distemper.' [He died in 1717, 'aged 70' - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 201.]
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar himself in Welsh antiquities, and in the Welsh manuscripts belonging to William Jones (1675? - 1749). True, Sir John Lloyd was convinced that the attribution to Owen of the 1775 History of Anglesea, including an essay on Owain Glyn Dŵr attributed to Thomas Ellis of Dolgelley (these attributions are made in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry), is erroneous - the History, says Sir John, was by John Thomas (1736 - 1769
OWEN, HUGH (1575? - 1642) Gwenynog,, translator that was about mid-summer 1624. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bulkeley of Groesfechan, by whom he had two sons and seven daughters. He was the uncle of William Griffith, D.C.L., chancellor of Bangor and St Asaph and of George Griffith, bishop of St Asaph. He is chiefly remembered as the author of Dilyniad Crist, the first translation into Welsh of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi
OWEN, Sir (HERBERT) ISAMBARD (1850 - 1927), medical man, scholar, and architect of universities Born at Chepstow on 28 December 1850, son of William George Owen, an engineer of note, pupil of Isambard Brunel, a more distinguished engineer, associated with the early development of the G.W.R. Young Isambard went to schools at Gloucester and Rossall, graduated at Cambridge in 1872, and became a medical student at S. George's Hospital, London, where he grew into a specialist and author, a
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor time taking charge of the Dissenting congregation in that town - there, on 27 June 1681, he and Philip Henry held debate with bishop William Lloyd of S. Asaph. In 1690, he opened an academy which was in high repute; none the less, he itinerated, for we find him preaching monthly at Ruthin, and afterwards at Denbigh, Wrexham, and Llanfyllin. But in 1700 he became co-pastor with Francis Tallents at
OWEN, JOHN (1757 - 1829), writer on religious topics (1723 - 1817) of Bala, and containing notes on Methodist preachers. Owen also published Difrifol Ystyriaeth, 1789, Tair Cerdd Newydd, 1795, and Golygiad ar Athrawiaeth y Drindod ac ar Berson Crist, 1820. His grandson, David Charles Lloyd-Owen, is separately noticed.
OWEN, JOHN (1836 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author of the popular ballad 'Cân y Mochyn Du' ('the Ballad of the Black Pig') Born 1 April 1836, the son of Simon and Rachel Owen, Blaenpencelli, Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire. He received his early education at the Sunday school held at Ebenezer Baptist chapel. Before he was 12 years of age, he was engaged as a shepherd boy at Henllys, the former home of the 16th century historian, George Owen, and after serving thus for a period of two years, he took leave for eight weeks in
OWEN, JOHN (Owain Alaw; 1821 - 1883), musician him called 'Calfari' appeared in Haleliwia, 1849; in the Rhuddlan eisteddfod of 1851, where he was given the name of Owain Alaw, he took the prize for an anthem, 'Deborah a Barac.' In the same year he tied with John Ambrose Lloyd at the Tremadoc eisteddfod for a cantata, 'Gweddi Habacuc.' Other eisteddfodic successes were - London, 1855, 'Can Mair'; Merthyr Tydfil, 'Y ddaeargryn'; 'Cymanfa Gwent a
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander proved too late for that. Retreating through Bangor before superior forces, with the wounded parliamentary sheriff, William Lloyd, as his prisoner, he was trapped on the seashore at Y Dalar hir, Llandygài (5 June), where his men were scattered by Mytton and he himself captured; the sheriff died of the rigours of the journey. Owen was committed to Denbigh castle, then brought to London for trial on
OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist The Unmasking of all Popish Monks, etc., 1628, dedicated to Sir John Lloyd of Aberllefenni and Ceiswyn, and Speculum Jesuiticum, 1629. W. Llewelyn Williams says that he died in 1629.
OWEN, MORRIS BRYNLLWYN (1875 - 1949), minister (B), college professor, church historian no less than eight contributions, the more substantial of them dealing with various aspects of the story of early Baptists both in England and Wales. But before the end of that same year five obituary articles to him had appeared in Seren Gomer, written by his fellow-professors, by old students, one by an old fellow-student of his, A.J. George. He died 30 July 1949.
OWEN, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1486-1574), lawyer son of Rhys ab Owen of Henllys, Pembrokeshire, and Jane, daughter of Owen Ellyott, of Earwere, in the same county, and father of George Owen of Henllys. He was a near cousin of Sir Thomas Elyot. After a suit lasting nineteen years he successfully established his claim to the barony of Kemes (Cemais) in Pembrokeshire. He was a member of the Middle Temple and shared chambers with Sir Anthony

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