Background
Owen was the son of Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet of Orielton, Pembrokeshire and his second wife Catharine LLoyd, daughter of Sir Evan Lloyd, of Yale, Denbighshire.
Owen was the son of Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet of Orielton, Pembrokeshire and his second wife Catharine LLoyd, daughter of Sir Evan Lloyd, of Yale, Denbighshire.
He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 7 December 1660, aged 15. In 1670, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1672.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1664.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire in the two elections of 1679 and in 1681. In 1688 he was appointed Sheriff of Anglesey, but did not acting
He was elected Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire again in 1689. Owen died at the age of about 54 in Bristol, where there is a monument to him in the church of Street Augustine. of William Griffith of Len, but had no issue by her.
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In 1676, he was elected Member of Parliament for Pembroke in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.