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TRAHAEARN BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. first half of the 14th century), poet In a poem in which he is satirised his pedigree is given as Trahaearn ap Goronwy, ap Rotbert, ap Bledri (R.B.H. Poetry, 1343). Certain phrases in the same poem suggest that, like Cynddelw, he was called 'Prydydd Mawr' because of his physical size (e.g. ' A giant who is offended ' and ' The son of Goronwy is bigger than I am '). In the Cambrian Biography (Owen), it is supposed that he is the same
teulu TREVOR Brynkynallt, and was rewarded with Irish land and office, a seat on the Irish privy council, and the title of viscount Dungannon and baron Trevor (22 August 1662). He married, as his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Lewis of Presaddfed, Anglesey, and widow of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, and was succeeded in the peerage by her two sons, Lewis and Mark, after whose death without offspring, it lapsed (8 November
TREW, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1926), Wales and Swansea rugby centre three-quarter duties at half-back with R. M. Owen, and together they developed an attacking technique which invariably bewildered and confused their opponents. Trew captained the Swansea team on the famous occasion in December 1912, when, after Wales had lost to the South Africans, Swansea beat that famous combination by a try to nothing. A great incident in Trew's career was the demonstration following on Wales
teulu TUDOR Penmynydd, was Owain, grandson of Goronwy, who appears to have been the first of this branch of the family to adopt the surname Tudor, transformed into Theodore in the time of his son, RICHARD OWEN THEODORE I. This was the surname borne by all subsequent heirs with one break when a second son succeeded an older brother in the time of Elizabeth. The last of this name was RICHARD OWEN THEODORE V (fl. 1657), who
TUDOR, OWEN DAVIES (1818 - 1887), legal writer Born 19 July 1818 at Lower Garth, Guilsfield, eldest son of Robert Owen Tudor, a captain in the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Emma, daughter of John Lloyd Jones, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, was admitted to the Middle Temple in April 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. After practising in London for many years he was appointed joint
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TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author
TURNER, SHARON (1768 - 1847), solicitor and historian , in 1803, by publishing A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems. He was the first to discuss their antiquity, demonstrating the ignorance of the sceptics; see John Morris-Jones, Taliesin (= Cymm., xxviii). His letters to William Owen Pughe are in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army was active in suppressing the various risings in North Wales on behalf of king Charles I, and was present at the skirmish on Y Dalar Hir, Llandygai, 5 June 1648, where Sir John Owen of Clenennau was overcome and captured. He was also a member of the High Court of Justice formed for the trial of king Charles, as well as of several commissions appointed by Parliament to deal with sequestrations, etc
teulu VAUGHAN Llwydiarth, from Edward de Charleton, lord of Powys, dated 7 Henry V. The family is not mentioned by Lewis Glyn Cothi, and presumably was not powerful before Tudor times. The Vaughans appear to have been constantly at feud with the Herberts, which may explain why they provided no members of parliament for Montgomeryshire, and only one sheriff, JOHN ab OWEN VAUGHAN (in 1583); he married Dorothy, daughter of
teulu VAUGHAN Corsygedol, , the poet, who made him a present of his works.' (See also James Howell in Epistolae Ho-Elianae). His son RICHARD VAUGHAN (died 1636) became well known in London as the abnormally stout Member of Parliament for Merioneth. He married Anne, daughter of John Owen, Clenennau. WILLIAM VAUGHAN (died 1669) their son married Anne, daughter of the house of Nannau, and thus united two families which had
VAUGHAN, ARTHUR OWEN (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863? - 1919), adventurer and author called him Owen. He himself adopted the name Arthur Owen Vaughan and formed his pseudonym ' Owen Rhoscomyl' from Rho[bert] Sco[urfield] Myl[ne] using the Middle English word for mill. When a boy, he ran away to sea (from Portmadoc), and became a wanderer. In the South African War, he led a troop of horse. the 14th Northumberland Fusiliers, and acquired note; and in the 1914 war he rose to be colonel

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