Owen Williams (Owen Gwyrfai)

It was at the school in Waunfawr and Betws Garmon that he learnt the rules of prosody as a pupil of Dafydd Ddu Eryri.

In 1824, Williams' Baron Richards was judged to be the best at Awdl the Cymreigyddion eisteddfod in Caernarfon.

He died in Waunfawr on 3 October 1874 and was buried at the churchyard of St.Garmon's church in the nearby hamlet of Betws Garmon.

A collection for his tombstone raised fifty pound and it was unveiled on 7 March 1879.

[1] His published works include a metrical version of the Song of Solomon (1820), Geirlyfr Cymraeg, a Welsh dictionary that was published in forty-five parts, and Hanes y deg erledigaeth o dan Rufain Babaidd (1847).