Edward Owen (died 1741) was a Welsh artist who held an apprenticeship in London with the artist Thomas Gibson. [1]
Owen was the son of Robert and Ann Owen. His maternal uncle was Dr Edward Wynn (or Wynne) of Bodewryd, who was Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral. [2] Edward Owen had two brothers, William and Hugh; their mother's correspondence with them is held among the Penrhos papers at Bangor University. [3]
Owen died in 1741 from Tuberculosis. [1]
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wynn, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation is extant as of 2008.
John Parry, known as Parri Ddall, Rhiwabon was born in the Llŷn Peninsula, Caernarfonshire, now Gwynedd, in Wales, and was blind from birth.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people.
This is a list of Sheriffs of Caernarvonshire.
The Williams-Wynn Baronetcy, of Gray's Inn in the County of Middlesex in the Baronetage of England, and of Bodelwyddan in the County of Flint in the Baronetage of Great Britain, are two titles held jointly since 1880.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.
David Owen was a Welsh harpist, best remembered as the composer of the popular song, "Dafydd y Garreg Wen", which according to tradition Owen composed as he was dying. Dafydd y Garreg Wen was later adapted and published by harpist Edward Jones.
This is a list of Sheriffs of Merionethshire. The historic county of Merioneth was originally created in 1284. The administrative county of Merioneth was created from the historic county under the Local Government Act 1888.
John Williams was a Welsh cleric and schoolteacher.
Edward Wynne of Plas Bodewryd, Bodewryd, Anglesey, was a Welsh lawyer and landowner, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, an advocate at Doctors' Commons, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford (1707–55) who has been regarded as "undoubtedly, one of the chief men of Anglesey in the first half of the 18th century."
Events from the year 1741 in Wales.
Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet, of Glynllifon and Bodvean, Caernarvonshire and Melai, Denbighshire was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1740 and 1768.
Events from the year 1749 in Wales.
St Mary's Church, Bodewryd is a small medieval church in the hamlet of Bodewryd, in Anglesey, north Wales. The date of construction is unknown, but there was a church on this site in 1254 and the earliest feature to which a date can be given is a doorway in a 15th-century style dating to around 1500. When the church was restored in 1867 after being struck by lightning, stained glass with Islamic-influenced patterns was included in the windows, a requirement of Lord Stanley of Alderley, the church's benefactor, who was a convert to Islam.
Edward Owen may refer to:
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1712 to Wales and its people.
Sir Thomas Wynn, 1st Baronet (1677–1749) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1749.
Elen Gwdman was a Welsh female poet and writer of the early 17th-century. Very little is known of her life, but it is thought she may have belonged to a sub-branch of the Woods family from the Tal-y-llyn area, in north-west Anglesey. Gwdman is a rare example of a female poet of the early modern period.
Plas Bodewryd is a Grade II* listed privately owned country house in Bodewryd, Ynys Môn, which was owned by the Wynne family until 1755 then the Lords Stanley of Alderley until the 20th century.