William Owen (composer)

[2] The boy grew up in Bethesda, Gwynedd, where at ten years of age he entered his father's profession.

[2] He was of several Welsh hymn writers who had been a member of The Society of Religious Singers in Bethesda during his formative years.

[2] Among his best known works, after Bryn Calfaria, are the anthem Ffynnon Ddisglair (Bright Well) and the hymns Alma and Deemster.

[8][9] He married a woman from Prysgol, a farmhouse near Caeathro,[2][10] a few kilometers inland from Caernarfon,[11] where he lived then.

He died on 20 July 1893, aged 79, and is buried in Caeathro chapel burial ground.