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OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander the royalist poet Huw Morys. His marriage with Mary, widow of bishop John Hanmer, producing no heir, his estate was reunited on his death with Clenennau, inherited by Sir John's son WILLIAM OWEN (1624 - 1677), who had been with his father at the siege of Bristol; married Katherine Anwyl of Park, Meironnydd, and lived during the Interregnum on the Anwyl estate of Llanddyn. His son, Sir ROBERT OWEN
OWEN, LEONARD (1890 - 1965), administrator in India, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born at Bangor, Caernarfonshire, 1 October 1890, son of David Owen, solicitor, and Mary (née Roberts) his wife. He was educated at Friars School and the University College of North Wales (1909-14), Bangor, where he played an active part in sport, was president of the literary and debating society and graduated B.A. with first-class honours in French in 1912 and M.A. 1914. He entered the Indian
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (bu farw 1555), judge , 1639 - 1700). The second son, HUGH LEWIS OWEN of Cae'rberllan, Dolgelley, a lawyer, would appear to have been the ancestor of the Tan-y-gadair family (see Henry Owen, 1716 - 1795), but the pedigrees are inconclusive on this point. The third son, EDWARD OWEN of Hengwrt (Griffith, op. cit. 201), was the grandfather of the antiquary Robert Vaughan and the ancestor of the later Hengwrt and Nannau
OWEN, MARGARET (Peggy; 1742 - 1816) friend of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the daughter of Lewys Owen (1696 - 1746), younger son of Sir Robert Owen of Porkington (Brogyntyn), Salop, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, and Moynes Court, Monmouthshire. Her father, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was rector of Barking, Essex (1735-46), and Wexham, Buckinghamshire (1742-6
OWEN, MARY (1796 - 1875), hymn-writer beginning ' Caed modd i faddau beiau ' and ' Dyma gariad, pwy a'i traetha.' She married (1) Thomas Davies, sea captain, Neath, and (2) the Rev. Robert Owen (died 1857). She received a licence to keep a school. She died 26 May 1875, and was buried at Briton Ferry.
OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary succeeded his father at Llandyfrydog, and the mistake has possibly arisen from confusing Nicholas with his brother Richard, who, though he died before his father, had indeed officiated at Llandyfrydog. Of this large family, only Nicholas and his sister Mary were alive in October 1785; consumption (says he) had swept the rest away. But their mother, Margaret, daughter of Robert Edwards, rector of Llan-rug
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister 1867 he married Ellen, sister of the Rev. Robert Evans, the missionary. They lived at Rhos-cefn-hir, near Pentraeth, for four years - the wife keeping a shop while he went out preaching. He then went to London for a time and, on his return in 1873, was ordained. After he had settled at Pen-y-sychnant, Penmaenmawr, his powers developed and his influence spread throughout Wales. A simpler and more
OWEN, ROBERT (1820 - 1902), cleric and author
OWEN, ROBERT (1834 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born in 1834, son of Robert Owen of Neuadd Ddu, Blaenau Ffestiniog; his mother being of the Tyddynllwyn family, Llanfrothen. After having been at Bala C.M. College (1857-61) he won the Dr. Williams scholarship at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1865. He was minister of the churches at Pennal and Maethlon, Meironnydd (1865-99). He was a capable writer and historian and published a
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist Born at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 14 May 1771, his father, Robert Owen, was a saddler and ironmonger in the town, and his mother the daughter of a local farmer named Williams. His only formal education was what he received before he was 10 when he left home to serve four years' apprenticeship to a Scottish draper, James McGuffog, at Stamford, Lines. After a short time as a draper's assistant in
OWEN, ROBERT (Eryron Gwyllt Walia; 1803 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Born 3 April 1803 at Ffridd-bala-deulyn, near Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, son of Griffith Owen, a native of Waun-fawr, and Anne his wife, daughter of the house of Ffridd and sister of the preachers, Robert Roberts of Clynnog and John Roberts of Llangwm. Shortly after he was born his parents moved to Caernarvon, where he was brought up. He attended the school kept by Evan Richardson, where he
OWEN, ROBERT (1858 - 1885), schoolmaster and poet Born 30 March 1858 at Tai Croesion, a small farm not far from Llanaber church, Merionethshire; son of Gruffydd Owen, boatman and farmer, and his wife Margaret. The particulars given here are taken from the biography written by (Sir) Owen M. Edwards for the selection made by him of the poems by Robert Owen, published in 1904 at Llanuwchllyn. When he was four years old, Robert Owen moved with his

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