OWEN, WILLIAM (Philotheoros; 1789 - 1841); Baptist preacher, schoolmaster, and almanacmaker
Pseudonym: Philotheoros
Date of birth: 1789
Date of death: 1841
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baptist preacher, schoolmaster, and almanacmaker
Area of activity: Education; History and Culture; Literature and Writing; Poetry; Religion; Scholarship and Languages; Science and Mathematics
Author: Benjamin George Owens
Born 1789, a native of the Fishguard district, he is also associated with Letterston, and is said to have started to preach at Llangloffan, but it was as a schoolmaster at Cardigan that he spent the greater part of his life. He was a man of many parts - linguist, littérateur, astronomer, a poet in the free metres, and editor of a Welsh almanac founded by him, at Cardigan in the 1830's; but he is best known, as his pseudonym implies, for his interest in mathematical problems. He died 15 October 1841, aged 52, and was buried at Siloam, y Ferwig.
Author
- Benjamin George Owens
- R. Edwards, Hanes Llangloffan, 1932, 59
- R. Edwards, Hanes Bethania, Aberteifi (Llandysul 1947), 1947, 73
- David Jones, Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru (1839), 189, 193
- Seren Gomer, 1841 (380), 1858 (267-8)
- Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1942, 32
Sources
- Wikidata: Q28360923
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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