Thankful Owen was an English academic in the mid-17th century. Owen was born in London and educated at

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.Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Oade-Oxwick
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Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the ...

, from 1642 to 1650; and

president of St John's College, Oxford A list of presidents of St John's College, Oxford: * Rev. Alexander Belsyre (1557–1559) * Rev. William Eley (1559–1560) * Rev. William Stock (1560–1564) * Rev. John Robinson (1564–1572) * Rev. Tobias Matthew (1572–1577) * Rev. Fran ...

, from 1650 to 1660. He died on 1 April (

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) 1681 and was buried in

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1681 deaths Academics from London Presidents of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford 17th-century English people {{UOxford-stub