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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, May 28, 1774. Of Montgomeryshire. B. [June 23, 1756, at Berriew, Montgoms., perhaps an illegitimate s. of Mr Owen Owen, of Tyncoed, and his housekeeper, who afterwards married a Mr Jones, of Traffin, Co. Kerry, Thomas being brought up as his son]. School, Shrewsbury. ' Matric. Michs. 1774. Migrated to Trinity, June 27, 1776, age 19; Scholar, 1777; B.A. (Senior Wrangler) 1779; First Smith's prize, 1779; M.A. 1782. Fellow of Trinity, 1781-1807; Junior Dean, 1787-9; Tutor, 1787-1807. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 18, 1780; priest (Ely) June 6, 1784; C. of Fen Ditton, Cambs., 1784. C. of Swaffham Prior, 1784. On Dec. 11, 1791, preached before the University, at Gt St Mary's, a sermon against duelling (from Exodus XX. 13) which was occasioned by the duel which had lately taken place near Newmarket, between Henry Applewhaite and Richard Ryecroft, undergraduates of Pembroke, in which the latter was fatally wounded. Author of an address to the Volunteers of Montgomeryshire. Tutor of Bishop Marsh, of Peterborough, who contributed an affectionate memoir of him to Encyclopaedia Londinensis. Died July 18, 1807, in lodgings in Edgware Road, London. Buried in the cemetery of Dulwich College. A bust and a memorial tablet are in the ante-chapel of Trinity. (Shrewsbury Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 340-1; Gunning, I. 250; Eminent Welshmen; D.N.B.)