Isambard Owen

Sir Herbert Isambard Owen (28 December 1850 – 14 January 1927) was a British physician and university academic.

At the time his father, William Owen, later chief engineer of the Great Western Railway, was building the South Wales Railway under Isambard Kingdom Brunel, from whom Isambard Owen received his unusual middle name.

[1][2] He became a lecturer, author, and curator of the museum at St George's Hospital, and promoted the idea of establishing a new medical university in London.

He was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours,[4] receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.

[6] Owen was executor of the will of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813–1891) and may have acted as medical advisor to the Prince, who lived in London and was a philologist with an interest in the Celtic languages including Welsh.