Background
OWEN, Charles Mansfield was born in 1852. 7th son of late Herbert Owen, Barristerat - Law. Of the Oxford Circuit and Inner Temple.
OWEN, Charles Mansfield was born in 1852. 7th son of late Herbert Owen, Barristerat - Law. Of the Oxford Circuit and Inner Temple.
Studied at Merton College, Oxford. Master of Arts.
Ordained to the Curacy of Holy Trinity, Southampton, 1875. Vicar of Woolston, Southampton, 1880. Vicar of Saint George’s, Edgbaston, 1883-1903.
Honourable Clerical Secretary Church Extension Society for the Archdeaconry of Birmingham over ten years, of the Birmingham Churches’ Trust, of the Hospital Sunday movement, of Bishop of Birmingham’s Fund, and of Birmingham Diocesan Conference.
Member Royal Commission on Blind and Deaf and Dumb. Deputy Chairman Royal Institution for Deaf and Dumb at Birmingham.
Honourable Secretary Royal Association, in aid of Deaf and Dumb, London. Founded Diocesan Mission to Deaf and Dumb in the Diocese of Winchester, 1880.
Honourable Canon of Worcester, 1891, Chaplain to High Sheriff of Warwickshire, 1898, and Lord Calthorpe and the Bishop of Worcester.
Chief Clerical Secretary of the Birmingham Church Congress, 1893,and secretary of the Birmingham Bishopric Scheme, 1903. A Volunteer Chaplain for over thirty years. Rural Dean of Edgbaston, 1905.
Archdeacon of Aston, 1906.
Volunteer Officers" Decoration, Vicar of Edgbaston since 1903.