Mansfield Owen

The Very Rev. Charles Mansfield Owen (24 October 1852 – 4 November 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first four of the 20th.[1]

He was born at Rodborough, Gloucestershire in 1852, the seventh son of barrister Herbert Owen and Catherine Paterson. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1875, he began his career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Southampton. In 1880, he became Vicar of Woolston then three years later St. George's Church, Edgbaston.[3] Appointed to be Rural Dean of the area in 1905,[4] he was promoted again to the post of Archdeacon of Aston and then in 1912 to Archdeacon of Birmingham.[5] In 1915 he was appointed Dean of Ripon,[6] 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 Royal Navy during World War I, and retired with the rank of Commander
• Reginald Mansfield Owen, who became a Major in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was killed in action aged 25 on the 2 August 1916 in France.