Sir Hugh Owen

Sir Hugh Owen was born in 1804 in Llangeinwen, Anglesey. While working as a clerk on the Poor Law Commission, Hugh Owen spent most of his efforts on educational reform in Wales; in 1856 he was one of the chief supporters of the Normal College in Bangor's establishment. However, it is for his involvement with Aberystwyth University that he is most remembered. An honorary secretary of its London committee in the 1860s, he was partially responsible for the election of its first principal, T. C. Edwards. Upon his retirement in the 1870s, he devoted much of his time to promoting the interests of the institution.
He died in November 1881, only three months after being knighted, and is buried in Abney Park Cemetery, London.