Modern English biography

(1858), _vi_ 184–6 (1860), _vii_ 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861), _viii_ 289–90 (1862). OWEN, CONRAD JOHN. Entered Bombay army 1823; captain 1 Bombay light cavalry 30 Oct. 1838, major 7 Dec. 1850, lieut. col. 28 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1858 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Malta 3 April 1860. OWEN, DAVID (son of Benjamin Owen of Llanpumpsant, near Carmarthen, shoemaker). _b._ Llanpumpsant 1794; originally known as David Benjamin; kept school at Gilfach, near Aber, Carnarvonshire; in charge of the Baptist churches of Talygraig, Galltraeth, Tyndomen and Rhos Hirwaen in Carnarvonshire; expelled from the Baptist denomination; member of the Independent church at Capel Newydd; wrote an article signed Brutus on The poverty of the Welsh language in Seren Gomer, the leading Welsh magazine 1824; edited an undenominational monthly magazine entitled Lleuad yr Oes, Swansea 1827–31; edited at Llandovery an Independent magazine entitled Efengydydd 1831–5, and a church magazine entitled The Haul 1835 to death; author of A treatise in defence of infant baptism, Aberystwith 1828; Allwedd y Cyssegr new Eglurhad byr ar yr Ysgyrthyrau Sanctaidd, Llanmddyfri 1834; Proceedings of the established church 1841; Eliasia. By Bleddyn 1844, being notes on the career of John Elias of Anglesey; Brutusiana 1855, a selection of his non-controversial writings. _d._ Bron Arthen near Llandovery 16 Jany. 1866. _bur._ Llywel churchyard. _Ashton’s History of Welsh literature_ (1894); _Red Dragon iii_ 385–405 (1883) _portrait_; _Y Traethodydd_, _Denbigh_ (1867) 213–27, 421–8. OWEN, DAVID DALE (son of Robert Owen, the Socialist 1771–1858). _b._ Lanarkshire 24 June 1807; graduated at Ohio medical college 1835; conducted the survey of Minnesota territory 1849–52; state geologist of Kentucky 1854–7, of Arkansas 1857–9, and of Indiana 1859 to death; author of Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, Philadelphia, 2 vols. 1852; Report of a geological reconnoisance of Indiana 1839; A geological report of the Marble hall quarry 1853; Report of the geological survey in Kentucky, 2 vols. 1856–7; Reports of a geological reconnoisance of Arkansas, 2 vols. 1858–60. _d._ New Harmony, Indiana 13 Nov. 1860. OWEN, EDWARD (only son of Edward Owen of Garthyngharad, Merioneth). Educ. Friars school, Bangor, and Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1852; C. of St. George, Hulme 1856–7; C. of Stockton Heath, Cheshire 1858–9; in charge of Eastham, Cheshire 1859–60; V. of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1861 to death; author of A brief history of the church and parish of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1868; Jottings on the rubrics for morning and evening prayer 1874. _d._ Oldham 22 Jany. 1883 aged 52. _bur._ Chaddington cemetery. OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (only son of Hugh Owen 1761–1827, archdeacon of Salop). _b._ March 1788; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; minister of Park st. chapel, Grosvenor sq. London; V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Shropshire 1823–40; contributed several plates to Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury 1825; published Etchings of ancient buildings in Shrewsbury, 2 numbers 1820–1; Etchings 1826, containing 45 plates with his portrait; The book of etchings, 2 vols. 1842–55. _d._ Roderic house, Cheltenham 15 July 1863. OWEN, ELLIS (son of Owen Ellis of Cefnymeusydd in the parish of Ynys Cynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, farmer). _b._ 31 March 1789; educ. Penmorfa and Shrewsbury; farmer at Cefnymeusydd to his death; a local antiquary and genealogist; a writer of englynion (stanzas); president of the Literary Society of Cefnymeusydd 1846–57; F.S.A. 23 Jany. 1868; his poetical and prose writings were published with a biographical notice under the title of Cell Mendwy, The Hermit’s Cell 1877. _d._ Cefnymeusydd 27 Jany. 1868. OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP CUNLIFFE (3 son of Charles Cunliffe Owen, captain R.N.) _b._ 8 June 1828; entered navy 1840, served in the Mediterranean and West Indies 1840, retired from ill health 1845; clerk in the Science and art department, Marlborough house, London 1854; one of the superintendents of the British section of the International exhibition at Paris 1855; deputy general superintendent of the South Kensington museum 1857, assistant director 1860–73, and director 1873–93; director of the foreign sections of the London exhibition 1862; assistant executive comr. at Paris exhibition 1867; secretary of the English commission at the Vienna exhibition 1873; entertained at a banquet in London and presented with 3,500 guineas for his services as secretary of royal commission at Paris exhibition of 1878, 12 March 1881; one of the executive committee of the Fisheries exhibition 1883, the Health exhibition 1884, and the Inventions exhibition 1885; executive officer of the Colonial and Indian exhibition 1886; C.B. 5 Jany. 1875, K.C.B. 28 June 1886, K.C.M.G. 29 Oct. 1878; C.I.E. 30 June 1879; grand officer of the legion of honour. _d._ Lowestoft 23 March 1894. _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1260 (1879) _portrait_; _Touchstone 3 May 1879 pp._ 1–2 _portrait_; _Biograph March–April 1882 pp._ 249–51; _Huish’s Year’s Art_ (1892) 15 _portrait_; _Graphic xiii_ 459, 472 (1876) _portrait, and 20 May 1893 p._ 562 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 445 (1873) _portrait_. OWEN, FREDERICK. _b._ 1800 or 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; R. of Aghold with Mullinacuffe, co. Wicklow 1857–89; precentor of Leighlin 1880–90; dean of Leighlin 1890 to death. _d._ Aghold rectory 3 July 1895. OWEN, GEORGE. Secretary of the Welsh property defence association; organized the landlord’s case for the Welsh land commission; chief organizer of the conservative party in North Wales; _committed suicide_ by taking poison at Carnarvon 9 July 1895. OWEN, HENRY CHARLES CUNLIFFE (brother of Sir Francis P. C. Owen 1828–94). _b._ Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct. 1821; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 March 1839, lieut col. 1 April 1862 to death; served in the Boer war 1845, and the Kaffir war 1846–7; computer of space for the United Kingdom at the Great exhibition 1851, then superintendent of the foreign departments, and lastly general superintendent of the exhibition; inspector of art schools in the department of practical art at Marlborough house 1851–4; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 3 Feb. 1852; lost his leg in the Crimean war 1855; granted pension of £100 per annum; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; assistant inspector-general of fortifications at the war office Oct. 1855, deputy inspector-general April 1856 to Aug. 1860; commanded R.E. of the Western district Aug. 1860 to death; colonel in the army 22 Nov. 1861; a founder of the English church union 1860. _d._ Plymouth 7 March 1867, memorial window in St. James’s church, Plymouth. OWEN, HENRY JOHN (son of John Owen, minister of Park chapel, Chelsea 1812–22, _d._ Ramsgate 1822). _b._ 22 Sept. 1796; perpetual curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1822–34; Miss Hughes miraculously cured in the chapel July 1831; Dr. Bayford spoke in the spirit there; built the Catholic Apostolic church in College st. Chelsea, ordained to be the angel there 1834, some of his former congregation joined him there, held office to his death, it was generally known as Owen’s chapel; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1830; The prayer of faith viewed in connexion with the healing of the sick 1831; We are not our own, a discourse 1859. _d._ 11 Foulis terrace, South Kensington, London 26 Nov. 1872. _A. Beaver’s Memorials of Old Chelsea_ (1892) 146, 342; _Miller’s Irvingism i_ 139–40 (1878). OWEN, HUGH. _b._ Denbigh 23 May 1784; captain Shropshire volunteers 24 Nov. 1803; cornet in sir Stapleton Cotton’s regiment 31 July 1806; captain of cavalry in the Portuguese army 1810; brigade major to sir Loftus Otway and then to sir Benjamin D’Urban; led a brigade into action at battle of Vittoria 21 June 1813; captain 18 hussars 22 June 1813; placed on h.p. 25 May 1816; sold out of British army 4 Sept. 1817; went with lord Beresford to Brazil 1820; retired and resided on his estate near Oporto; knight commander of San Bento d’Aviz and knight of the Tower and Sword; author of A Guerra civil em Portugal, o sitio do Porto e a morte de Don Pedro. Por hum Estrangeiro 1836; The civil war in Portugal and the siege of Oporto 1836; Memoir of major the hon. Somers Cocks, privately printed by sir John Rennie. _d._ Garratt’s hall, Banstead, Surrey 16 Dec. 1861. OWEN, SIR HUGH (son of Owen Owen). _b._ Voel, parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesea 14 Jany. 1804; educ. Carnarvon 1812–17; clerk to W. Bulkeley Hughes, barrister the Temple, London 1825; clerk to R. Vaughan Williams, solicitor, Hatton garden 1819 and for many years; clerk in the poor law office, Somerset house 22 Feb. 1836; advanced to be in the secretary’s office; chief clerk of the poor law board 1853 to Nov. 1872, gave evidence before parliamentary committees on the poor law board which led to the establishment of local government board; sec. to a committee for establishing the South Islington and Pentonville British schools 1839; a great advocate of improved education in Wales and a promoter of the Bangor training college, established 1858, and the Swansea training college for women; founded social science section of the national Eisteddfod at Carnarvon 1862; a founder of the honorable society of the Cymmroderion Nov. 1873; chief founder of the University college of Wales at Aberystwith, opened Oct. 1872; member of London school board for Finsbury 3 April 1872; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. _d._ Mentone 20 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 26 Nov., bronze statue unveiled at Carnarvon 22 Oct. 1888, bust at royal institution, Swansea. _Red Dragon i_ 291–300 (1882) _portrait_; _The Times 8 and 23 Oct. 1888_. OWEN, SIR HUGH OWEN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Owen, _d._ 1861). _b._ Lincoln’s inn, London Jany. 1804; M.P. Pembroke boroughs 1826–38 and 1861–68; lieut. col. Pembrokeshire militia 1830; succeeded 6 Feb. 1861; lieut. col. commandant royal Pembroke artillery 14 May 1872, hon. col. 10 Feb. 1875 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 24 May 1872 to death. _d._ Cranmore, Midhurst, Sussex 5 Sept. 1891. OWEN, JACOB. _b._ North Wales 28 July 1778; clerk of the works to royal engineer department at Portsmouth 1804–32; principal engineer and architect at Irish board of works in Dublin 1832–56; erected criminal lunatic asylum at Dundrum, near Dublin 1848, and Mountjoy prison, Dublin 1850; erected model schools and other government buildings in Ireland. _d._ Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs. 26 Oct. 1870. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. _Dictionary of architecture vi_ 54 (1877). OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS (son of Jacob Owen 1778–1870). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1852; architect to Irish board of works at Dublin, in succession to his father, 1856 to death. _d._ 9 April 1891. OWEN, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 March 1796; served in battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar; commanded the detachment of marines at Languilia, which defeated the 52 French regt. 1812; commanded marines in lord John Hay’s squadron on coast of Spain 1836–7; aide-de-camp to the sovereign 21 April 1837 to 11 Nov. 1851; deputy adjutant general of R.M. 1 Jany. 1838 to 13 Dec. 1854; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1844 to Nov. 1851; L.G. 20 June 1855; K.H. 1 Jany. 1833, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852. _d._ 47 Connaught sq. London 15 Feb. 1857. OWEN, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Lord of Pembroke, _d._ 15 June 1801). _b._ Pembroke 1776; barrister I.T. 23 May 1800; M.P. Pembrokeshire 1806–41; M.P. Pembroke district of burgh 1841 to death; assumed by R.L. name of Owen in lieu of Lord on succeeding to estates of sir Hugh Owen on 23 Aug. 1809; cr. baronet 12 Jany. 1813; governor of Milford Haven 14 June 1821 to death; lord lieut. of Pembrokeshire 1824 to death. _d._ Taynton house, near Newent, Gloucestershire 6 Feb. 1861. OWEN, JOHN. V. of Thrussington, Leicestershire 1845 to death; rural dean 1853; translated from the Latin of John Calvin Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets 1846; On Paul to the Romans 1849; On Jeremiah and Lamentations 1850; On Paul to the Hebrews 1853; On the Catholic Epistles 1855; from the Latin of Martin Luther Commentary on the Galatians 1845; from the Welsh of W. Rees The Mercy seat 1861; author of A memoir of rev. Daniel Rowlands 1840; Lectures on popery 1843; Memoirs of rev. T. Jones 1851; Church government according to the New Testament