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OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS, eldest son of William Owen, Conway, Caernarvonshire, mercer, and Margaret, dau. of John Ellis, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire; b. 25 Feb 1765; adm. 22 Sep 1777; KS 1780; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1785, matr. 26 May 1785, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1785 – void 25 Nov 1791 (expiry year of grace as V. South Stoke from 2 Dec 1790); BA 1789; ordained; Vicar of South Stoke, Oxfordshire 1790; Rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 10 Dec 1794 and from 29 Dec 1812 [check]; Perpetual Curate of Penmynydd, Anglesey, from 29 Dec 1812; author, Methodism Unmasked, or the Progress of Puritanism, 1802; m. 27 May 1791 Harriott, sister of Sir Robert Chester (qv); d. 1 Dec 1814. DNB.

OWEN, REGINALD SOLLY, third son of Rev. John Owen, Vicar of Hooton, Cheshire, and Mary, dau. of Joseph Solly, Queen’s Gardens, London; b. 6 Nov 1861; adm. 27 May 1875 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1876; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1880, matr. 15 Oct 1880; BA 1884; MA 1890; Assistant Master, Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, Devon 1888-; m. 28 Aug 1907 Esme Ethel, only dau. of Lieut. -Col. Alfred Mansel DSO, Royal Artillery, Glen Road, Mannamead, Plymouth, Devon; d. 25 Oct 1922.

OWEN, MATTHEW; b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1684, but was never adm.

OWEN, CORBET, eldest son of Rev. William Owen, Rector of Pontesbury (second portion), Shropshire, and Prebendary of Worcester, and Ann ---; bapt. Pontesbury, Shropshire 5 May 1646; touched for the King’s evil by Charles II in Flanders; adm. May 1658; KS 1659; according to Wood, it was usual for him at the School “to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses extempore in little more than half an hour” (Ath. Oxon., iii, 924); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663; BA 1667; MA 23 Mar 1669/70; said by Wood to have been “the most forward person of his age in the university for polite learning” (Ath. Oxon., ibid. ); adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Apr 1665; author, Carmen Pindaricum in Theatro Sheldoniano in solemnibus magnifici operis encoeniis recitatum, 1669, and of Divers Poems, etc.; d. 18 Jan 1670/1. DNB.

OWEN, ANDREW, brother of Walter Owen (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 224); Trinity Hall, Cambridge, scholar 2 Apr 1632, matr. Easter 1633; LLB 1637; LLD 1652; Fellow, Trinity Hall 11 Aug 1634; buried St. Edward’s, Cambridge 13 Nov 1665.

Overstall, Mark, brother of John Cooper Overstall (qv); b. 19 Sept. 1939; adm. Sept. 1953 (QS); Capt. of the Sch. 1958; left July 1958; Brasenose Coll. Oxf., matric. 1958, BA 1962, MA 1965; asst. master Dover Coll. 1963; Canford Sell. 1963-9, head of Mod. Languages 1967-9; Winchester Coll. 1969-81, Capt. CCF 1974; m. 1st, 31 Aug. 1963 Rosemary Ann, d. of James Edward Constantine Mitchell, solicitor, of Winchester, Hants; 2nd, 19 Apr. 1975 Caroline Jill, d. of Robert Wallace Nevin FRCS, of Basingstoke, Hants; killed while climbing in Nepal 11 Apr. 1981.

OVERALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1563, but never adm.

OTTER, KENYON BETHELL, brother of Henry Shirecliffe Otter (qv); b. 10 Oct 1857; adm. 12 Jun 1868; QS 2 Oct 1872; left Aug 1873; clerk, London Stock Exchange; d. 3 Aug 1890.

OTTER, HENRY SHIRECLIFFE, second son of Charles Otter, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, Examiner of Court of Chancery, and Elinor Shirecliffe, dau. of Kenyon Stevens Parker QC, New Square, Lincoln’s Inn; b. 4 Feb 1856; adm. 26 Jan 1866; exhibitioner 1869; QS (Capt. ) 1870; Capt. of the School 1873; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1876; played football for Oxford 1874-8, threw hammer for Oxford 1878; Ba 1878; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Nov 1876; Indian Civil Service (Madras) 1876; Assistant to Collector, Tinnevelly 1879; returned to England owing to ill-health; d. 29 Dec 1879.

OSBORNE, NICHOLAS, son of Sir John Osborne, Bart., MP (I), and Editha, dau. of William Proby, EICS Madras; b. co. Tipperary; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1736/7 (Wynniate's); KS 1738; left 1742; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 28 Jan 1740/1; BA 1745; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Dec 1749. [perhaps of Kensington, Middlesex, will PCC 13 Jun 1786]