OWEN
,
WILLIAM
(
Philotheoros
;
1789
-
1841
);
Baptist preacher, schoolmaster, and almanacmaker
;
b.
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 d.
15 Oct. 1841
, aged 52, and was buried at
Siloam
,
y Ferwig
.
Bibliography:
-
R. Edwards
,
Hanes Llangloffan
,
1932
, 59;
-
R. Edwards
,
Hanes Bethania, Aberteifi
, Llandysul J.
D. Lewis a'i Feibion, 1947
,
1947
, 73;
-
Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru
,
1839
, 189, 193;
-
Seren Gomer
,
1841
(380), 1858 (267-8);
-
Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr
Cymru
,
1942
, 32.
Author:
Benjamin George Owens, M.A., Aberystwyth
