Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen (9 November 1836 – 9 December 1905) was a Welsh barrister, landowner and

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politician. Humphreys-Owen was born at Garthmyl,

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, the son of Erskine Humphreys, a barrister. He was educated at Harrow School and

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. In 1874 he married Maria Russell, the daughter of a

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. Humphreys-Owen was himself called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1863. He later became a Justice of the Peace. He was chairman of the Cambrian Railways Company from 1900. In 1876 he had inherited the estates of the Owens of Glansevern and added the name Owen to his surname. As a landowner he had nearly to his name. He was sometime Deputy Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and was chairman of Montgomeryshire County Council. He was a strong supporter of education and chaired the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education from 1896 to 1905. From 1894 he was elected Liberal

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for

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in a

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to succeed

Stuart Rendel Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (2 July 1834 – 4 June 1913), was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894, and was recognised as the lead ...

on his elevation to the peerage. He scraped home in the election by only 225 votes, a drop from Rendel's majority of 600 but he held the seat until his death, aged 69, in 1905.

References

*''Who was Who'', OUP 2008 * K O Morgan, ''Montgomeryshire’s Liberal Century: Rendel to Hooson, 1880-1979''; '' The Welsh History Review'', 16:1, June 1992
Welsh Political Archive at the National Library of Wales
* K O Morgan, ''Wales in British Politics 1868-1922''; University of Wales Press, 1963

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Humphreys-Owen, Arthur 1836 births 1905 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies Members of Lincoln's Inn Welsh barristers People educated at Harrow School Directors of the Cambrian Railways Welsh landowners UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 19th-century British businesspeople