Glasynys

Owen Wynne Jones (4 March 1828 – 4 April 1870), often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman, folklorist, poet, novelist and short-story writer.

Owen Wynne Jones was born at a house called Ty'n-y-ffrwd, in the village of Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon. At the age of eight, he began to read Welsh literature while recovering from an injury to his leg, and at the age of ten, he was sent to work in the quarry, but returned to school in the village of Y Fron, near Caernarfon, at the age of seventeen, and later began work as a schoolmaster in Clynnog Fawr on the Llŷn Peninsula, and in Llanfachreth, Merionethshire. He began to assist Eben Fardd in arranging local eisteddfodau.

In 1860 he was ordained as an Anglican clergyman, and worked as a deacon in Llangristiolus and Llanfaethlu on Anglesey. Then he moved to Pontlotyn in Monmouthshire, and later to Newport, where he co-edited he periodical Y Glorian with William Thomas (Islwyn). He left the periodical, moved to Porthmadog, Llŷn where he married, and settled in Tywyn, where he died at the age of forty-two.

Owen Wynne Jones wrote poetry, collected in Fy Oriau Hamddenol (1854), Lleucu Llwyd (1858) and Yr Wyddfa (1877), historical novels including Dafydd Llwyd, neu Dyddiau Cromwel, articles and letters which were published in Y Brython, Baner y Groes, Y Geninen and Yr Herald Gymraeg, and short stories, retelling folk tales and describing folk customs, which appeared in the anthology, Cymru Fu (1862).

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