John Owen Williams (Pedrog)

John Owen Williams (1853–1932) was a Welsh Congregational minister and poet who served as Archdruid.

[1] Pedrog was born in May 1853 in Madryn, near Pwllheli, the youngest son of Owen and Martha Williams, both of whom were in service locally.

At the age of two he was sent to stay with his father’s sister Jane Owen, in Llanbedrog, when his elder brother contracted smallpox.

His father then decided to go to sea as a ship’s steward but his first voyage seemingly ended in a Melbourne hospital where he died.

While resident in Liverpool, Pedrog joined the Welsh Wesleyan church in Chester.