George Owen of Henllys

George Owen of Henllys (1552 to 1613) was a Welsh antiquarian, author and naturalist from Pembrokeshire, educated in law at the Inns of Court in London. He gathered information on the heraldry, genealogy, buildings and topography of Wales and Pembrokeshire, and in the course of that work he observed the geology of Wales, including the strata of limestone and coal. Although he formed no geological theories of the formations, he earned a reputation as the progenitor of British geology and is commemorated in Nevern church as the Patriarch of English Geologists. His Description of Penbrokshire appeared in 1603, and a map of the county he made in 1602 was published in the 1607 edition of Britannia. A wrinkle ridge on the Moon, Dorsum Owen, is named for him.