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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 1, 1814. S. of the Rev. John (1784). B. [Sept. 22, 1796], at Fulham, London. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1814. Migrated to Trinity, Aug. 28, 1815; B.A. 1819; M.A. 1822. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 19, 1819; priest, Dec. 24, 1820. P.C. of Park Chapel, Chelsea, 1822-33; Miss Hughes was miraculously cured there, 1831. Built the Catholic Apostolic Church (generally known as Owen's Chapel) in College Street, Chelsea. Ordained to be angel there, 1834-72. Author, Discourses on the Lord's Supper; The Prayer of Faith in connection with Healing of the Sick. The Cambridge Chronicle, [p.612] Nov. 8, 1833, quotes from The Standard: The Rev. Mr Owen, the late minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea, who was deprived of his gown for embracing the doctrine of the manifestation of tongues, preaches every Sunday at the Clock-hole, Chelsea, until a new chapel, now in course of erection, shall be completed. For an account of the manifestations in which Mr Bayford, Owen's father-in-law, was concerned, see British Mag., IV. (1833), 474, 508. Married, June 16, 1829, Angela Francis, dau. of John Bayford. Died Nov. 26, 1872, at 11, Foulis Terrace, South Kensington. Brother of John Orde (1824). (Eton Coll. Reg.; Boase, II. 1286; G. Mag., 1829, I. 640.)