Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). _b._ York 1805; assistant curate
of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37;
V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull
1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s
progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage
lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848;
The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2
vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham
1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. _d._
Cottingham 31 March 1889. _Memoir of rev. Charles Overton_
(1889).
OVERWEG, ADOLF. _b._ Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made
explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he
was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further
than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. _d._ of fever
near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. _Notice of recent
discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg._ _By J.
Hogg_ 1852; _Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi_ 130 (1851), _xxii_
133 (1852), _xxiii p. cx_ (1853), _xxvi pp. clxi, clxii_ (1857);
_Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv_ 19–24 (1887).
OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of
Brighton). _b._ Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in
City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845,
alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord
mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member
of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new
winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. _d._ Mulgrave house,
Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_
(1884) 139–47; _Graphic xvi_ 436 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxxi_ 444 (1877) _portrait_.
OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe).
_b._ 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the
Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant
tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law
comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the
adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to
death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for
the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in
the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp.
153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles
of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and
Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848)
pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or
The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab
Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). _d._ Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July
1851. _Archæologia Cambrensis_, _3 ed. series iv_ 208–12, 245–9
(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
1852. _d._ 1867.
OWEN, JOHN (son of the captain of a small vessel). _b._ Crane
st. Chester 14 Nov. 1821; apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and
Edwards, cutlers; became a professional musician 1844; organist
successively of Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, S. Paul’s, Boughton,
St. Bridgets, St. Mary’s, and the Welsh church, all in Chester;
known in Wales as Owain Alaw 1863; won the prize for the best
anthem at the royal Eisteddfod of Rhuddlan 1850; edited Gems of
Welsh melody, 2 series 1862, 4 series 1873; composed The prince
of Wales cantata 1862; The festival of Wales cantata 1866; The
Welsh harp, national songs 1880; wrote glees, songs, and anthems
in Welsh musical magazines; his name is attached to upwards of
25 pieces of music. _d._ Lorne st. Chester 30 Jany. 1883. _Y
Geninen_, _Carnarvon_ (1883) 124–30; _The musical world 3 Feb.
1883 p._ 74.
OWEN, JOHN BLACKMAN. In the service of Great Eastern railway
from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. _d._ 17 Upper Hornsey Rise,
London 31 July 1873. _bur._ Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7
Aug.
OWEN, JOHN PICKARD. _b._ Goodge st. Tottenham court road,
London 5 Feb. 1832; received baptism by immersion in a pond
near Dorking; joined the church of Rome; became a Deist, but
afterwards a believer in christianity; author of The fair haven,
a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord’s
ministry upon earth, by J. P. Owen, ed. by W. B. Owen 1873,
memoir pp. 1–70. _d._ 15 March 1872.
OWEN, JONATHAN. _b._ 3 April 1820; billiard player; teacher of
billiards; marker in annual matches between Oxford and Cambridge
many years; known as Oxford Jonathan; father of Fred Owen, the
actor. _d._ Craven Buildings, Strand, London 26 March 1879.
_Bell’s Life in London 29 March 1879 p._ 2.
OWEN, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH (5 son of Jacob Owen, architect,
Dublin 1778–1870). _b._ Portsmouth 22 July 1809; educ. St.
Paul’s gram. sch. near Portsmouth, and at St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs. 1835;
in charge of Farthingstone, Northants. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary,
Bilston, Staffs. 1838–54, also preacher at St. George’s ch.
Wolverhampton, on leaving received a service of plate valued
at £1,000; incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London
1854–7, when the chapel fell in and the ruins were taken
down; preached in Store st. music hall 1857; preacher at St.
Swithin’s, Cannon st. 1856; chairman of directors of Royal
Polytechnic soc. 1857 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Chelsea 1858
to death; lecturer St. John’s, Wapping 1858 to death; author of
Six plain sermons on the Sabbath 1835; Six lectures on the rite
of confirmation 1840; The pottery schoolmaster, a biographical
sketch of Silas Even 1852; Diligent in business, a memoir of
G. B. Thornycroft 1856; Business without christianity, with
statistics and facts 1856, 2 ed. 1858; The mischief and miseries
of temper 1857; Cliques, social, professional, and religious,
with sketches of the Latch-Key and the Lock-out-the-Town’s libel
1864; The homes of scripture 1865; Men’s infirmities, natural
and acquired 1865. _d._ 40 Cadogan place, London 18 May 1872.
_bur._ Brompton cemetery 24 May. _Lectures and sermons by J.
B. Owen_ (1873), _memoir pp._ 1–96; _R. Simms’s Bibliotheca
Staffordiensis_ (1874) 339–40.
OWEN, SIR RICHARD (younger son of Richard Owen, West India
merchant 1754–1809). _b._ Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804;
educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson
of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb.
Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian
society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S.
18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s
inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St.
Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum
at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842,
sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany.
1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist
1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative
anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April
1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society
1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped
to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1;
granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at
Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to
death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of
the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of
extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of
natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to
1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South
Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in
the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association
at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the
prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869,
1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884;
granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the
first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of
Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the
comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals
1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds
1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84;
On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is
attached to upwards of 50 works. _d._ Sheen lodge, Richmond park
18 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt
exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. _Rev. R. Owen’s Life of
Richard Owen_, 2 _vols._ (1884) 4 _portraits_; _British medical
journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement_; _Maguire’s Portraits
of distinguished naturalists_, _Ipswich_ (1852) _portrait_;
_Walford’s Representative men_ (1868) _portrait_; _Nature
xxii_ 577–79 (1892) _portrait_; _Modern thought March 1883
pp._ 97–101; _The coward conscience by Charles Adams_ (1882)
_passim_; _Graphic xxviii_ 260 (1883) _portrait_; _Vanity Fair 1
March 1873 p._ 71 _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p._ 8
_portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 274 (1891) 3 _portraits_.