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OWEN, Sir GORONWY (1881 - 1963), politician Born 22 June 1881 at Pen-llwyn, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, the youngest son of Abraham Owen and his wife Margaret (née Sylvanus Williams). He was educated at Ardwyn School, Aberystwyth, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He graduated M.A. He earned his living as a schoolmaster and lecturer primarily in London for several years before World War I. In 1914 he was one of the founder
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet curacy of Northolt, Middlesex, where he wrote more cywyddau, including the best of all - 'Cywydd yn ateb Huw'r Bardd Coch o Fôn, yr hwn a roddasai glod i Oronwy.' Dr. Samuel Nicholls, his vicar at Northolt, obtained for him (with the consent of the bishop of London) an appointment as headmaster of the grammar school attached to the William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, where he began work
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' preacher of great serenity of temperament. Of his children his son JOHN OWEN became a preacher like his father - a young man of great promise, who died in 1700; his daughter Susannah married Edward Kenrick of Wrexham, a minister who supervised the Independents of Merioneth till his death in 1741; his daughter Mary was grandmother to the Rev. Hugh Farmer of Walthamstow who supplied many details about Hugh
OWEN, HUGH (1761 - 1827), cleric and local historian son of Pryce Owen, physician, Shrewsbury (' Pryce Owen of Bettws,' Montgomeryshire, according to R. Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies), and his wife Bridget, daughter of John Whitfield. Although the connection of Hugh Owen with Wales is but slight he merits inclusion as the joint- author, with J. B. Blakeway, of A History of Shrewsbury, two vols., quarto, 1825, a work which is still of value to
OWEN, Sir HUGH (1804 - 1881), educationist Born 14 January 1804, at y Foel, Llangeinwen, Anglesey (almost opposite Caernarvon), eldest son of Owen Owen and Mary his wife (daughter of Owen Jones). He was educated at the school kept by Evan Richardson, in that town, and after a short time at home went to London, in March 1825, where he served as a clerk till his appointment to a clerkship in the Poor Law Commission on 22 February 1836. In
OWEN, HUGH (1832 - 1897), musician Born 15 January 1832 at Botwnnog, Caernarfonshire, the son of Richard and Mary Owen. After a period spent in Botwnnog grammar school he became a tailor and settled at Tal-y-sarn in the Nantlle valley. After marriage he lived in a house called Pen-yr-yrfa and afterwards in one called Bryn-y-coed. He was precentor at the Tal-y-sarn C.M. chapel for over forty years; he started the Tal-y-sarn Glee
OWEN, JOHN (1757 - 1829), writer on religious topics Born in 1757 at Machynlleth, where for many years he had a grocer's business and was also partner with Hugh Williams the Chartist lawyer (1796 - 1874) in the Dylife lead mines. He joined the Methodists in early life, but though a stout Methodist he disapproved of the secession of 1811. On his wife's death, he removed to Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, where he died in 1829, aged 72. He was
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor when William Prichard gave the school house-room, Owen seized upon some derogatory remarks made by Prichard in the churchyard to hale him before the ecclesiastical courts at Bangor. Prichard was there defended by the prominent lawyer John Williams of Tŷ-fry (Anglesey); the case went up to the Great Sessions, and after three years Prichard was acquitted; but he had to quit his farm. John Owen gave
OWEN, JOHN (1788 - 1867), cleric and author son of Owen and Eleanor Owen, Cilirwysg, Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire. The parents were Calvinistic Methodists but two of their sons took orders - John Owen and David Owen (for the latter see Yr Haul, 1842, 195). John Owen was educated at Ystradmeurig under John Williams (1745/6 - 1818). Ordained at S. Asaph (deacon 1811, and priest 1812), he was curate at Hirnant 1811-3, S. Martin
OWEN, JOHN (1833 - 1896), cleric and author Born at Pembroke in 1833. He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter, and in the years 1858-9 assisted Rowland Williams (1817 - 1870) in the Hebrew classes there. He was curate of Alvedistone, Wiltshire, 1859-60, and at Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, 1860-9, but in 1869 became rector of East Anstey, Dulverton (DevonDevon), where he spent the rest of his life. In this seclusion, he read widely and
OWEN, JOHN (1733 - 1776), Methodist exhorter religion. On 22 December 1763 he married Mary Edwards of Plas Llangwyfan. They went to live at Berthen Gron in the parish where he had been born and before long their home was opened to the revivalists from South Wales. Mary Owen was a very exceptional woman; she rode her pony seven times to Llangeitho, a distance of 200 miles there and back, to get preachers to come to Berthen and the Vale of Clwyd. In
OWEN, JOHN (1864 - 1953), minister (Presb. C.W.) and author . He also published Cofiant a gweithiau David Roberts y Rhiw (1908); Rolant y teiliwr ac ysgrifau eraill (1920); Y Cyfundeb a'i neges: the Connexion and its message, in English and Welsh (1935). He edited volumes of the sermons of John Williams, Brynsiencyn (1922 and 1923), and Thomas Charles Williams (1928 and 1929). He also published a textbook on the journeys of St. Paul (1902), and a commentary

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