Charles Mostyn Owen (1818–94)

Army officer. Son of William Mostyn Owen Sr of Woodhouse. BA, Oxford, 1842. Served in South Africa during the Kaffir War of 1845–7. Chief constable of Oxfordshire from before 1877 until 1888. Married Frances, daughter of Edward Duncombe, rector of Barthomley, Cheshire, in 1855.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

Modern English biography