Daniel Owen

Daniel Owen was born on 20 October 1836 in Mold, in north-east Wales, the youngest of six children. His father, a miner, and two of his brothers drowned a few months later when a coal mine flooded, and the family remained poor. Apprenticed to a tailor at twelve, he began preaching in 1864, entered the theological college at Bala the following year and left it in 1867 without being ordained, in order to support his mother and his sister. He remained a tailor, gave up the pulpit in 1876 for reasons of health and then began to write. He died on 22 October 1895.

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• NovelRhys LewisDaniel Owen · 1885LiteraturePublic domain