George Owen (physician)

George Owen (1499–1558), from Oxford and Godstow, Oxfordshire, was an English royal physician and politician.

Owen was born in the Diocese of Worcester and educated at Merton College, Oxford.

George Owen was the royal physician to several members of the Tudor dynasty: Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I.

[4] Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, St Alban Hall, Oxford, became the property of the Crown, and Henry VIII granted it to Owen, who conveyed it to Sir John Williams and Sir John Gresham.

In 1547 they transferred the hall to John Pollard and Robert Perrot, who sold it to the Warden and Fellows of Merton College.