OWEN
,
WILLIAM
(
1750
-
1830
;
DWB
, 723).
Read
Milborne (not ‘Milbourne’) Port
each time.
Corrections and additions:
OWEN
,
WILLIAM
(
1750
-
1830
),
Evangelical cleric
,
the successor of
Thomas
Charles
‘of
Bala
’ (q.v.)
at
Sparkford
and
Milbourne Port
,
Somerset
; b. in
1750
, eldest son of
Joseph
Owen
,
freeholder
of
Fron-goch
,
Nevern, Pembs.
He was ordained
deacon
on
15 Aug. 1773
and
priested
on
6 Aug. 1775
. He was
curate
of his native parish of
Nevern
,
1775-9
, of
Sparkford
,
1783-5
, and of
Milbourne Port
,
1785-91
; later he became
perpetual curate
of
Milbourne Port
. The
bishop of Hereford
gave him the
vicarage
of
Almeley
on
11 Dec. 1816
; to that was added, on
6 March 1823
, the rectory of
Ryme Intrinsica
,
Sherborne
, of which the
prince of Wales
(afterwards
king
George
IV
) was the patron. He often visited
Pembrokeshire
and, when his father died, became the owner of
Frongoch
. He was an active supporter of the
Church Missionary Society
. He d.
4 Feb. 1830
, and was buried at
Sherborne
.
Bibliography:
-
E. Morgan
,
A brief Memoir of the life and labours of
the Rev. T. Charles, A.B. late of Bala,
Merionethshire
, London / Bala, 1828
, 196;
-
The Carmarthen Antiquary
, ii, 193;
-
E. Morgan
,
Essays, letters, and interesting papers of
the late Rev. Thomas Charles
, London, 1836
, 359-60;
-
D. E. Jenkins
,
Life of Thomas Charles
, 1908
, i, 518-9.
Author:
Rev. Daniel Williams, (1878-1968), Llangollen
