Francis Owen (priest)
Francis Owen may refer to: * Francis Owen (missionary) (1802–1854), English missionary * Francis Owen (politician) (1745–1774), British politician * Francis Owen (philologist) Francis Owen (6 September 1886 − 22 December 1975) was a Canadian philologist and military officer. He was Professor of German and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Alberta, and the author of the first comp ...

Francis Owen (missionary)
Francis Owen was the first English missionary to the Zulu kingdom, then ruled by King Dingane. He and his household were the only white witnesses to the massacre of Piet Retief and his approximate 80 followers in February 1838 in the Zulu capital of Umgungundlovu. He is also the only European to leave a detailed account of life in the Zulu court and travelling through Natal at that time. Background 300px, The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK), Dutch Reformed mission station on Hlomo amabutho, the site of Owen's camp at Umgungundlovu. The concrete cross is a bell tower, all that remains of a 1969 church building that was torched during political unrest in the 1980s. Owen was born in Chelsea, London, Chelsea, London, in 1802. In 1836 was a vicar in Normanton, West Yorkshire when he attended a lecture given by a retired naval captain, Allen Francis Gardiner, who was seeking a missionary to convert the Zulu people to Christianity. Owen agreed to help and travelled to South ...
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Francis Owen (politician)
Francis Owen (1745–1774) was a British politician who was elected to the House of Commons in 1774 but was killed in an accident before Parliament met. Owen was the younger son of William Owen of Porkington Selattyn, Shropshire and his wife Mary Godolphin, daughter of Rev. Henry Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul's and was baptized on 24 February 1745. His uncle Francis Godolphin, 2nd Baron Godolphin was MP for Helston. Owen was educated at Eton College in 1756, and matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1764. In the early 1770s The Swiss-French painter Jean-Étienne Liotard visited England when one of his patrons was James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil. Clanbrassil was connected with the Godolphin family and was MP for Helston. Liotard painted a portrait of Clanbrassil and subsequently in 1773 a portrait of Owen, dressed in 17th century costume. At the 1774 general election Owen stood for Helston on the Godolphin interest and was elected as Member of Parliament A m ...
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