Owen Morgan Edwards (26 December 1858
– 15 May 1920) was a Welsh historian, educationalist and
writer. He is often known as O. M. Edwards.
Owen Edwards was born in Llanuwchllyn near Bala,
the eldest son of Owen and Beti Edwards. He gives a vivid
description of his early education in his autobiography Clych Adgof
("Bells of Remembrance") published in 1906. Llanuwchllyn was then
and remains a strongly Welsh-speaking area, but the Welsh was not
in use at the local school and usually found itself round Owen's
neck, as a punishment for speaking Welsh.
Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards (July 25, 1895
– January 23, 1970), was a Welsh academic, writer and
film-maker, best known as the founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the
Welsh League of Youth.
He was born at Tremaran, Llanuwchllyn,
Merionethshire, the son of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, and was
educated at Bala grammar school and University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. After military service on the Western Front during
World War I, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, taking a degree
in history. He worked as a teacher and lecturer from 1920 to 1948,
when he gave up the profession to concentrate on his work for the
Urdd.
The cache is a 35mm film canister with a log and
pencil. Please be extra careful near the busy main road with
children.
