Charles Mansfield Owen (24 October 1852 – 4 November 1940) was an Anglican priest. He was born at

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, Gloucestershire in 1852, the seventh son of barrister Herbert Owen and Catherine Paterson. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford. Ordained in 1875, he began his career with a

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at ''Holy Trinity,

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''. In 1880, he became

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then three years later St. George's Church, Edgbaston. Appointed to be

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of the area in 1905, he was promoted again to the post of Archdeacon of Aston and then in 1912 to Archdeacon of Birmingham. In 1915 he was appointed Dean of Ripon,"New Dean Of Ripon". ''

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'' Monday, 27 September 1915; pg. 11; Issue 40970; col E 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

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during

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, and retired with the rank of Commander * Reginald Mansfield Owen, who became a Major in the

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, and was killed in action aged 25 on the 2 August 1916 in France.

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1852 births People from Hamble-le-Rice Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests Deans of Ripon Archdeacons of Aston Archdeacons of Birmingham 1940 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub