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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 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
OWEN, GEORGE - gweler HARRY, GEORGE OWEN
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
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

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