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
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
