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OWEN, GWILYM (1880 - 1940), physicist research work under Sir J. J. Thomson in the Cavendish laboratory; he graduated at Cambridge in 1905. He was then appointed lecturer in physics at Liverpool, remaining there till 1913, when he became professor at Auckland, New Zealand. He served with the New Zealand forces in the 1914-19 war; in 1919 he was appointed professor of physics at Aberystwyth. When principal Sir Henry Stuart Jones retired early
OWEN, HENRY (1844 - 1919), antiquary
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar Born in 1716 at Dyffrydan, about 3 miles from Dolgellau, son of William Owen (died 1767), a lawyer, and christened 29 January at Dolgelley. His mother's name was Jonet(te). According to Powys Fadog (vi, 463-72), he was of the family of baron Lewis Owen (died 1555). Henry was his father's second son; the eldest was Lewis Owen (died 1757), whose son was Henry Owen (1750 - 1827), a Dolgelley
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' under the Indulgence to preach in his own house; in September Henry Maurice, (1634 - 1682) called on his journey to Llyn; early in 1676 James Owen paid him a visit on his way to the militant Independents of Eifionydd, doubtless not without delivering a sermon in secret to Hugh Owen and the other six nonconformists who were counted in Llanegryn and district in archbishop Sheldon's census of that year
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor . The D.N.B. can hardly be right in saying that he was also under the tuition of the Quaker James Picton, for Picton left Tenby when James was only four, and spent the subsequent years mostly in prison. James Owen himself told Calamy that he was under the tuition of Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) at Brynllywarch in 1672-3; he came afterwards under Stephen Hughes at Swansea. Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682
OWEN, JEREMY (fl. 1704-1744), Presbyterian minister and writer -y-ceisiaid ensued, led by Mathias Maurice and Henry Palmer. Undefined but self-confessed laxity of conduct on Jeremy Owen's part compelled him to resign his pastorate, c. 1715. He is found keeping school in London in 1718; in 1721-6 he was pastor at Petworth; in 1726-32 at Barnet; and in 1733-44 at Princes Risborough. He afterwards emigrated to America (T. Rees, Hist. of Prot. Noncon., 2nd ed
OWEN, JOHN (1616 - 1683), Puritan (Independent) divine Who 'with Baxter and Howe, stands in the front rank of Puritan divines'. Born in 1616, died 24 August 1683. His career is recounted in the D.N.B., and has nothing to do with Wales, except that generations of Wales's most famous Calvinistic preachers were nurtured on Owen's works. But he was of Welsh blood. He was the son of Henry Owen, vicar of Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, and thus grandson of
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (bu farw 1555), judge Son of Owen ap Hywel ap Llywelyn, of Llwyn, Dolgelley. Under Henry VIII he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of North Wales and baron (i.e. judge) of the exchequer at Caernarvon; he was sheriff of Merioneth in 1545-6 and 1554-5, and Member of Parliament for the shire in 1547, 1553, and 1554; he lived at Cwrt Plas-yn-dre, Dolgelley. As sheriff, he undertook to extirpate the ' Red Bandits of Mawddwy
OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN MORGAN - gweler MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN
OWEN, MORGAN (1585? - 1645), bishop
OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère Born 1867 at Dolgellau, son of Dafydd Owain, compositor and reader in the office of Y Dysgedydd and Y Dydd, and Margaret (née Vaughan). He served his apprenticeship in the same office before moving to Abergavenny in 1887 to work as a Welsh compositor in Henry Sergeant's press. He took an interest in music, having learnt the rudiments of sol-fa in the Sunday school in Yr Hen Gapel, Dolgellau
OWEN, RICHARD (1839 - 1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister corner of the district, asked for his help and he came to feel the attraction of that small and homely church. Dafydd Morgan's revival (see David Morgan, 1814 - 1883), as it was called, impelled him to offer himself officially as a candidate for the ministry. The authorities saw fit to give him a field of seven churches in which he might preach, and he was given £10 for a course of education at the

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