Owen Gwyn was a Welsh churchman and academic, Master of St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

 from 1612 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 1615-16.

Life

He was from Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a county in north-east Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd Palaeolithic site has remains of Neanderthals from 225,000 years...

, the third son of Griffith Wynn, of the Wynn family of Gwydir

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. He took up in 1584 one of the scholarships at St John's College founded by his uncle, the lawyer John Gwyn, matriculating at Easter. He graduated B.A. in 1588 and M.A. in 1591; and proceeded B.D. in 1599, D.D. in 1613 . He became a Fellow in 1589. Among his pupils was his cousin John Williams, who later advanced his career. He was rector of Honington

Honington

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 in 1605, was elected Master in 1612, and was Vice-Chancellor in 1615/6 . He was also vicar of East Ham

East Ham

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, Essex

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, from 1605 to 1611, and rector of South Luffenham

South Luffenham

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, Rutland

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, from 1611. Williams made him Archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1622, and a prebendary

Prebendary

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 of Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

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. He was buried in the college chapel, on 5 June 1633.