The Archive · 1926

The Bishop of St. David's

London, Nov, 4.

The death is announced of the Rt. Rev. John Owen, Bishop of St. David's, at the age of 72,—Reuter, The Rt. Rev. Owen was an old Oxonian," He became a priest in 1880 and was afterwards Warden and Headmaster of Llandovery Coblege. He gave up this position im 1889 and for three years was Dean of St. Asaph, after which he became Principal of St, David's College, Lampeter. He was Canon of St. Asaph from 1892 to 1897 when he became Bishop of St. Davids, In later years he devoted himself to writing on Church affairs, more particularly the Cheech in Wales.

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