Humphrey Frank Owen OBE (4 November 1905 – 23 January 1979) was a British journalist, writer, and radical Liberal Member of Parliament.

[2] He worked as a journalist on the South Wales Argus (1928–29), the Daily Express (1931–37) and was editor of the Evening Standard (1938–41).

[1] In 1940, along with Michael Foot and Peter Howard he was one of the authors of Guilty Men, a denunciation of appeasement and an attack on Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, amongst others.

[6] At the eleventh hour he was selected as Liberal candidate for his home constituency of Hereford at the 1929 General Election.

Owen fought the 1931 General Election therefore as an official Liberal candidate opposed to the National government.

The Liberal party was very weak at the time, but he managed to achieve one of their better results, significantly pushing Labour into third place; His Conservative opponent was then elevated to the House of Lords causing a vacancy.

"Yes," he said, "I was elected by the highly intelligent, far-sighted people of the constituency of Hereford in 1929 – and thrown out by the same besotted mob two years later.