Fanny Bulkeley-Owen Explained

Fanny Bulkeley-Owen
Birth Name:Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby-Gore
Birth Date:1845
Birth Place:Great Britain
Death Date:27 November
Death Place:Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Occupation:Historian
Subject:Welsh cultural movements
Spouse:
Children:Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon
Relatives:John Ormsby-Gore (father)
Lloyd Kenyon (father-in-law)

The Honourable Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley-Owen (1845 – 25 November 1927; née Ormsby-Gore, married name Kenyon from 1863, then Bulkeley-Owen from 1880) was a British historian and author. She was a member of the Anglo-Irish Gore family.

Biography

Ormsby-Gore was the only daughter of John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech. She married first, in 1863, Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (1835–1865), son and heir of the 3rd Baron Kenyon. He died before his father, and their only child, also named Lloyd Kenyon, succeeded his grandfather as 4th Baron Kenyon in 1869. She re-married, in 1880, Rev. Thomas Bulkeley-Owen, who died in 1910.

She displayed a keen interest in researching Welsh cultural movements, and wrote a memorandum on the history of Maelor Saesneg for the Welsh Land Commission in 1894. She was awarded the bardic title of Gwenrhian Gwynedd.[1]

In 1897, Bulkeley-Owen published a history of the parish of Selattyn,[2] which includes the family estate of Brogyntyn. She died in Shrewsbury in 1927.[1]

The National Library of Wales is in possession of a letter written by Lord Harlech to her, dated 9 December 1906.[3]

Notes and References

  1. s-BULK-KAT-1845. BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE. 22 March 2016.
  2. Book: Annual Report – National Library of Wales. 1975. National Library of Wales.
  3. Web site: Letter from Lord Harlech to Fanny Bulkeley Owen, Brogyntyn, 1906, Dec. 9.. Copac. 22 March 2016.