Aneurin Owen (antiquarian)

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Portrait of Aneurin Owen as a child

Aneurin Owen (23 July 1792 – 17 July 1851) was a Welsh historical scholar.

Life

Aneurin Owen was a son of William Owen by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth. While he was still a child his father took the additional name of Pughe on inheriting some property at Nantglyn in Denbighshire. The family moved there from London. Owen was for a short time at Friars School, Bangor, but was mainly educated by his father.[1]

Aneurin made his home at Tanygyrt, near Nantglyn, and in 1820 married Jane Lloyd, also of Nantglyn. With the passing of the

Tithe Commutation Act 1836, he was appointed one of the assistant tithe commissioners for England and Wales. On the death of Colonel Thomas Francis Wade in 1847,[2] he was made an assistant poor-law commissioner, but found the duties too heavy. Later he was appointed, under the Enclosures Act 1815, a commissioner for the inclosure of commonable lands.[1]

Owen was one of a committee of five appointed at the Abergavenny Eisteddfod (1838) to consider the reform of Welsh orthography, and in 1832 won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod for the best Welsh essay on Agriculture (published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, 1839, and also in a separate volume).[1]

Owen died on 17 July 1851 at Trosyparc, near Denbigh.

Works

When the government decided in 1822 to publish an edition of the old British historians, the Welsh portion of the work was entrusted to

Law of Hywel.[1]

The edition of the Brut y Tywysogion did not appear in Owen's lifetime. The short portion which ends at 1066 was edited by him for the

Glamorganshire version of the Chronicle), with the introduction he had prepared for the Monumenta, and a letter on the Welsh chronicles to Henry Petrie, were printed as an extra volume by the Cambrian Archaeological Association.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Owen, Aneurin" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ John Nichols (1847). The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. p. 310. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Owen, Aneurin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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