Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet (?1731–1786), of

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, Wales was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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from 1770 to 1786. Owen was the eldest son of

Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (1697?–1781), of Orielton, Pembrokeshire, was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons for 52 years from 1722 to 1774. Owen was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Emma Will ...

and educated at

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in Hackney, London. His father appointed him

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of the Pembrokeshire Militia when it was embodied in 1759.Bryn Owen, ''History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire, Part 1: Regiments of Militia'', Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1995, ISBN 1-872424-51-1, pp. 20, 69–70. He succeeded his father as 5th baronet and to

in 1781. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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, 20 March 1770 – 16 January 1786. He married Anne, the daughter of John Colby of Bletherston, and had one son and heir, Hugh, the 6th Baronet.

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