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    William Owen Pughe (7 August 1759 – 4 June 1835) was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his Welsh and English Dictionary, published in 1803...
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    influences. The first modern publications were English translations by William Owen Pughe of several tales in journals in 1795, 1821, and 1829. However it was...
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  • British Royal Air Force commander J. S. Pughe (1870–1909), Welsh-born American political cartoonist William Owen Pughe (1759–1835), Welsh antiquarian and grammarian...
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  • medieval Welsh material. It was founded, and funded, by Owen Jones, who engaged William Owen Pughe as editor, and Edward Williams, better known as Iolo Morganwg...
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    Legend up to about A.D. 1000 (PDF). National Library of Wales. p. 35. William Owen Pughe in his Cambrian Biography, 1803, ... put forward the suggestion that...
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    Assisted by Edward Williams of Glamorgan (Iolo Morganwg) and Dr. William Owen Pughe, he published, at a cost of more than £1000, the well-known Myvyrian...
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    have discovered in manuscript form, with the help of the antiquarian William Owen Pughe. These were later revealed to be a mixture of forgeries by Morganwg...
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    Legend up to About A.D. 1000 (PDF). National Library of Wales. p. 35. William Owen Pughe in his Cambrian Biography, 1803, ... put forward the suggestion that...
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    genuine work, it proved quite popular. Williams worked with Owen Jones and William Owen Pughe on The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, a three-volume collection...
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    mediaeval copyist's error, already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. As an accomplished linguist and the...
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    reports of remains being sighted. In 1770, Welsh antiquarian scholar William Owen Pughe reported seeing sunken human habitations about four miles (6 km) off...
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    literary circle: Thomas Love Peacock, James and John Stuart Mill and William Owen Pughe'. National Library of Wales Journal, 24.3, pp. 352–57. Rev. Father...
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  • England, written in 1747. It was later put forward and popularised by William Owen Pughe in 1803. The theory subsequently gained more popularity during the...
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    referring to Wentwood, was proposed by the 19th-century lexicographer William Owen Pughe as the origin of the English name, but his hypothesis has been discredited...
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  • page 104. William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography: Or, Historical Notices of Celebrated Men Among the Ancient Britons (William Owen Pughe, 1803) page...
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    god of war. Past interpretations of the name have included that of William Owen Pughe, who in his Dictionary of the Welsh Language believed Aeron meant...
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    Johnes, with A sketch of the life of Davyth ap Gwilym. Dedicated to William Owen Pughe. Rachel Bromwich, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Writers of Wales series. (Cardiff...
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    first seen in 1803 in the Welsh-English Dictionary of lexicographer William Owen-Pughe and apparently coined by him. It is literally “profit-place” (mael...
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  • collections. 2) the Myverian Archeology of Wales, by Owen Jones, Edward Williams, and William Owen Pughe, Denbigh Wales, 1870., 3) the Triodd ynnys Prydein...
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  • nf), pseudonym Semilasso John Pudney (1909–1977, England, p/nf/ch) William Owen Pughe (1759–1835, Wales, nf) Manuel Puig (1932–1990, Argentina, f/d) Adriana...
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    England, written in 1747. It was later put forward and popularised by William Owen Pughe in 1803. The theory subsequently gained more popularity during the...
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  • 1944) Goronwy Owen (Goronwy Ddu o Fôn) (1723–1769) William David Owen (1874–1925) William Owen Pughe (1759–1835) Gwenlyn Parry (1932–1991) John Parry (1776–1851)...
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    Byron. Parry judges Silvan Evans to have been overmuch influenced by William Owen Pughe's Dictionary in his use of vocabulary. However, R. E. Hughes in the...
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    manuscripts, including Evan Evans, William Owen Pughe and Iolo Morganwg. The collection was inherited by William Watkin Edward Wynne of Peniarth Mansion...
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  • of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 20 December 2018. Jones, Owen; Morganwg, Iolo; Pughe, William Owen (1801). Y Myvyrian Archaiology [The Myvyrian Archaeology...
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  • Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1. Best Books on. 1922. p. 296. Griffith John Williams. "Pughe, William Owen (1759-1835), lexicographer...
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  • March - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (d. 1838) 7 August - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (d. 1835) 18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian...
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  • 2016 Pughe, William Owen (1803), The Cambrian Biography: Or, Historical Notices of Celebrated Men Among the Ancient Britons Pughe, William Owen (1832)...
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  • Flintshire. He was opposed to the views on Welsh orthography of William Owen Pughe, whose views had influenced Thomas Charles to print the British and...
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    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...
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