Mansfield Owen

The Very Rev. Charles Mansfield Owen (24 October 1852 – 4 November 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first four of the 20th.[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

1. "Obituary: The Very Rev C.M. Owen". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 6 November 1940. p. 4.
2. Who was Who 1897–1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. Vicars of St George’s Edgbaston
4. "St George's Church Edgbaston" 1838 - 1998 Harkness, J.C/Pinkess,J.R.H: Birmingham St George's Edgbaston PCC, July 1998
5. "No. 28631". The London Gazette. 30 July 1912. p. 5637.
6. "New Dean Of Ripon". The Times Monday, 27 September 1915; pg. 11; Issue 40970; col E