OWEN, WILLIAM (1750 - 1830), Evangelical cleric

the successor of Thomas Charles 'of Bala ' at Sparkford and Milborne Port, Somerset; born in 1750, eldest son of Joseph Owen, freeholder of Fron-goch, Nevern, Pembrokeshire. He was ordained deacon on 15 August 1773 and priested on 6 August 1775. He was curate of his native parish of Nevern, 1775-9, of Sparkford, 1783-5, and of Milborne Port, 1785-91; later he became perpetual curate of Milborne Port. The bishop of Hereford gave him the vicarage of Almeley on 11 December 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 died 4 February 1830, and was buried at Sherborne.

Author

• Reverend Daniel Williams, (1878 - 1968)

Sources

• Edward Morgan, A brief Memoir of the life and labours of the Rev. T. Charles, A.B. late of Bala, Merionethshire (London 1831), 196
• Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, ii, 193
• Edward Morgan, Essays, letters, and interesting papers of the late Rev. Thomas Charles (London 1836), 359-60
• D. E. Jenkins, Life of Thomas Charles (Denbigh 1908), i, 518-9

Published date: 1959

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