William Owen Pughe, a Welsh author, born at Tyn y Bryn, Merionethshire, Aug. 7, 1759, died June 4, 1835. His original name was William Owen, to which he added that of Pughe late in life, on receiving an inheritance. At the age of 17 he went to London to earn his living, and there made the acquaintance of Owen Jones, a tradesman, with whose support and encouragement he entered upon the study of ancient Welsh literature. The two published in conjunction in 1789 the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym, a bard of the 14th century. This was followed by the works of other poets and by translations; and in 1801, a third Welshman, Edward Williams, being associated with them, they published the first two volumes of the "Myvyrian Archaiology;" a third volume appeared in 1807. Pughe also prepared a Welsh and English dictionary (1793-1803), and the "Cambrian Biography" (1803); published a Welsh magazine entitled Y Greal; and translated into Welsh the "Paradise Lost," Heber's "Palestine," and other poems. - His son, Aneurin Owen (1790-1851), who dropped the name of Pughe, edited "Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales," printed by the record commission in 1841.