Sir John Owen | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Colonel_Sir_John_Owen_of_Clenenney,_Knt.jpg) Portrait of Sir John Owen, c.1660 | |
| Vice-admiral of North Wales | |
| In office 1660–1666 | |
| Sheriff of Merionethshire | |
| In office April 1632 – March 1633 | |
| Sheriff of Caernarvonshire | |
| In office April 1631 – March 1632 | |
| Royalist Governor of Conwy | |
| In office December 1644 – November 1645 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1600 Clenennau, Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire |
| Died | 1666 Clenennau |
| Resting place | St Beuno's Church, Penmorfa |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Spouse | Janet Vaughan |
| Children | One son, two daughters |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Royalist |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | |
Sir John Owen of Clenennau (c. 1600–1666), was a Welsh landowner from Anglesey, who served with the Royalist army in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, during which he held various commands in North Wales.
The Earl of Clarendon, in his history of the war, noted that Owen described himself as "a plain gentleman of Wales, who had been always taught to obey the King";[1] by contrast Cromwell referred to Owen in passing as "a violent man, now got into trouble enough".[2] Following the Second English Civil War he was sentenced to death in 1649 for treason and the murder of a Parliamentarian official, William Lloyd, but was later reprieved. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he was made Vice-Admiral of North Wales, dying in 1666.
- ^ Hyde 1826, p. 255.
- ^ Carlyle 1845, p. 394.