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He was born on Anglesey and moved to London at the age of 21 to work as a solicitor"s clerk.
He went to work for the Poor Law Commission in 1836, eventually becoming its Chief Clerk in 1853. Owen became involved in the British and Foreign School Society in London and in 1843 published an open letter to the people of Wales, advocating the need to establish British and Foreign schools in Wales. As a non-conformist he supported the idea of non-denominational day schools.
In 1843 he was instrumental in the appointing of an agent for the British and Foreign schools Society in North Wales, and then in South Wales at a later date.
In 1846 Owen became honorary secretary of the Cambrian Educational Society and published another letter advocating the establishment of schools in Wales. His campaign led to the establishment of a number of schools, but highlighted another problem: a shortage of trained teachers.
His vision included another teacher training college in South Wales, one specifically for women in Swansea and a university for Wales. In 1863 a committee was formed to raise the funds to establish a University for Wales in Aberystwyth.
In 1867 the Committee were able to buy the old Castle Hotel cheaply and by 1872 the University opened.
lieutenant was not financially stable and Hugh Owen retired in order to raise funds, to clear the debt, and secure the future of the University. Owen saw the need to improve the education in intermediate schools, so that there were suitably qualified entrants for the new University. This eventually led to the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Acting of 1889.
Owen was knighted in August 1881 but died 3 months later.
The main library at Aberystwyth University is named after Hugh Owen, as is Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, a secondary school in Caernarfon ("ysgol" is the Welsh word for school).
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Owen was briefly a member of the London School Board, elected to fill a casual vacancy in April 1872, he stood down at the November 1873 school board elections. At the National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon in 1880, he read a paper to members of the Society of Cymmrodorion on Intermediate Education in Ireland and Secondary Education in Wales.
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