John Owen (1766–1822)

John Owen (1766–1822) was an English Anglican priest, a secretary on its foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The son of Richard Owen, a jeweller of Old Street, London, he entered St Paul's School on 18 October 1777.

At the end of 1795 he was presented by Beilby Porteus, bishop of London, to the curacy of Fulham, Middlesex, where he resided for seventeen and a half years.

[1] Owen's connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) is his main claim to fame.

[1] Owen published some letters which he had addressed to William Belsham, as Travels into Different Parts of Europe, in the years 1791 and 1792, with familiar Remarks on Places, Men, and Manners, London, 1796, 2 vols.

In the same year he published The Retrospect; or Reflections on the State of Religion and Politics in France and Great Britain, London, 1794.