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.