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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
OWEN, ROBERT (bu farw 1685), Quaker October 1659; as late as January 1660 he was placed by the ' Rump ' on the county committee for the assessment of taxes. American Quaker sources make him governor of Beaumaris immediately before the Restoration (adding that John ap John, was there with him). In April 1660, Owen, with some of his late fellow-commissioners, was arrested, and imprisoned in Caernarvon gaol. In the same year he joined the
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) grandfather, Miles ap Harri, was married to Joan, a daughter of Sir Harry Stradling of S. Donat's, Glamorganshire, and as Joan's mother was sister to William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, the Herberts too come into the complex. Besides all this, there was kinship between the Parrys and the Cecils of Allt-yr-ynys (which is not far from Bacton); the William Cecil who continued to live at Allt-yr-ynys was in his
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy). All are given in full, transcribed into modern Welsh and translated into English on www.blancheparry.com. One of Guto'r Glyn's poems, 'Harri Ddu o Euas', gives the pedigree of this wide-branching family (Ifor Williams & J.Ll. Williams, eds, Gwaith Guto'r Glyn, 200-4 and 216-20); it refers to Harri Ddu ap Gruffudd, Blanche's great-grandfather, steward of Usk, Caerleon and
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon Edgar Parry was born on 1 May 1919 in the Post Office, Salem, Betws Garmon, Caernarfonshire, the second child of Gruffydd Henry Parry, a farmer of Hafod y Rhug, Llanrug, and his wife Helena Parry (née Williams). He had an elder sister Mary (Vaughan Jones) who became a Biology teacher and headmistress. The family subsequently moved to Plas Glanrafon, Waunfawr where Edgar was brought up. Edgar
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms He was a member of some branch of the old-established family of Parry of Poston, Herefordshire (cf. Parry, Blanche), and Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig, Brecknock - for pedigree, see Theophilus Jones, Brecknock [iv, 2-3, 155], and Llyfr Baglan. James Parry may be the James ap Rhys Parry mentioned in Llyfr Baglan, 37; at the time that his son George Parry went to Oxford (17 January 1633/4) the father
PARRY, RICHARD (1560 - 1623), bishop and biblical translator Born in 1560, son of John ap Harri, of Pwllhalog, Cwm, Flintshire, and Ruthin, and his wife, Elen ferch Dafydd ap John, of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. Richard Parry was educated at Westminster School under Camden. In 1579 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 5 February 1584. He was ordained a deacon by bishop Robinson of Bangor, 5 April 1584, and on 4 May was instituted to a
PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1540?-1612?), author and diarist Son of Harry ap Robert (of the Parry family of Tywysog, in the parish of Henllan, Denbighshire), and Elin, daughter of Rhys Wynn ap Gruffydd ap Madog Fychan, of Ffynogion. He married Dorothy, daughter of John Wynn Panton. Parry owed friendly allegiance to the Salusbury family of Lleweni, Denbighshire; an English elegy written by him on the death of his cousin, Katheryn of Berain, mother of Sir
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher theme, 'The attitude of Welsh Independents to working class movements, 1815-1870', a dissertation which won him his M.A. degree in 1931 and won for him the University of Wales The Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Prize. He would, so it was said, have easily graduated in divinity were it not for the fact that he accepted the call he received from the Independent Church at Siloa, Aberdare, where he was
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1560), courtier was the son of Harry Vaughan and grandson of Sir Thomas Vaughan, who had been knighted but subsequently beheaded by Richard III and was himself an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Vaughan of Tretower (ancestor of Henry Vaughan, ' Silurist'), and a grandson, through Sir Dafydd Gam, of Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, slain at Agincourt (1415). His mother was Gwenllian, daughter of William ap Grono
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Lectures at UCNW. But this prolific young scholar during these years had also began to work on another, vast subject, editing the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The only book of Dafydd's poems then available was a selection, what Parry called Ifor Williams's 'handy little edition' of 1921. He began the work in 1929. He also began to study topics germane to Dafydd's poems, studies that produced the remarkable
PARRY, WILLIAM (bu farw 1585), Roman Catholic conspirator was probably the son of Harry ap David, of Northop, Flintshire. To escape his creditors, he entered Burghley's service as a spy on Roman Catholics, and crossed to the Continent in 1571, 1579, and 1582. He himself became Roman Catholic in sympathy, and was convinced of the need for Elizabeth's assassination. His part in a proposed conspiracy against her life was betrayed by a fellow- conspirator

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