Evan Owen Allen (1805–1852) was a Welsh writer and poet born at Pant-y-llin, near

Llanrwst Llanrwst ('church or parish of Saint Grwst'; ) is a market town and community on the A470 road and the River Conwy, in Conwy County Borough, Wales, and the historic county of Denbighshire. It developed round the wool trade and became known als ...

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, the son of a farmer.

Writings

Allen contributed to ''

Seren Gomer ''Seren Gomer'' was the first Welsh-language weekly newspaper. The first number was published in 1814 in Swansea by the local Baptist minister and writer Joseph Harris (Gomer). Publishing history The weekly was intended to cover news from the wh ...

'', which had been the first Welsh-language weekly newspaper, and to other publications. However, by Allen's time ''Seren Gomer'' was a monthly, and it would later become a quarterly associated with the

Baptists Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only ( believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compe ...

. None of Allen's poetry is thought to have been published.

Death and burial

He died at

Ruthin Ruthin ( ; cy, Rhuthun) is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales, in the south of the Vale of Clwyd. It is Denbighshire's county town. The town, castle and St Peter's Square lie on a hill, skirted by villages such as Pwllglas and ...

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...

on 16 December 1852. He was buried at Llanfwrog Baptist Chapel.

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*''Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru'' (1870), p. 27 (in Welsh) 1805 births 1852 deaths People from Caernarfonshire People from Ruthin 19th-century Welsh writers 19th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-writer-stub