Owen, JOHN

Owen, JOHN, born at Pembroke in 1833, was educated at Lampeter, and in 1870 was appointed rector of East Anstey in Devonshire, where he died, 6th February 1896. A profound student, he wrote much for the Edinburgh Review and the Academy, but is best known for Evenings with the Skeptics (1881), Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance (1892), and Skeptics of the French Renaissance (1893). He edited Glanville's Scipsis Scientifica (1885), and published a volume of Verse Musings.