Mansfield Owen
Charles Mansfield Owen (24 October 1852 – 4 November 1940) was an Anglican priest.[1]
He was born at Rodborough, Gloucestershire in 1852, the seventh son of barrister Herbert Owen and Catherine Paterson. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1875, he began his career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Southampton. In 1880, he became Vicar of Woolston then three years later St. George's Church, Edgbaston.[3] Appointed to be Rural Dean of the area in 1905,[4] he was promoted again to the post of Archdeacon of Aston and then in 1912 to Archdeacon of Birmingham.[5] In 1915 he was appointed Dean of Ripon,[6] where he remained until his death in 1940.
Owen married, in 1884, Susan Hilda Roaslie Longmore, and they had two sons:
- Basil Wilberforce Longmore Owen (1886–1943), who was an officer in the Royal Navy during World War I, and retired with the rank of Commander
- Reginald Mansfield Owen, who became a Major in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was killed in action aged 25 on the 2 August 1916 in France.
References[edit]
- ^ "Obituary: The Very Rev C.M. Owen". The Times. 6 November 1940. p. 4.
- ^ Who was Who 1897–1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Vicars of St George’s Edgbaston
- ^ "St George's Church Edgbaston" 1838 - 1998 Harkness, J.C/Pinkess,J.R.H: Birmingham St George's Edgbaston PCC, July 1998
- ^ "No. 28631". The London Gazette. 30 July 1912. p. 5637.
- ^ "New Dean Of Ripon". The Times Monday, 27 September 1915; pg. 11; Issue 40970; col E
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