{{Short description|English clergyman and scholar (1816–1873)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person | name = Octavius Freire Owen | honorific_suffix = FSA | birth_date = 13 March 1816 | birth_place = London | baptised = 1816 | death_date = {{death date and age|1873|04|16|1816|03|13|df=yes}} | death_place = England | alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford | known_for = Creating the English translation of Aristotle's texts | spouse = {{marriage|Emily Owen|1843}} }}
'''Octavius Freire Owen''' FSA (13 March 1816 – 16 April 1873<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=J. Y. W. |title=The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog |date=1887 |page=470 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThsfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA470 |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>) was an English scholastic Aristotelian philosopher, translator, and clergyman, rector of Burstow, Surrey; and domestic chaplain to the Duke of Portland.
Owen was married to the English author Emily Owen, with whom he had ten children.
== Early life and education == Owen was born 13 March 1816, the eighth son of Henry Butts Owen M.D. in London England, and he was baptised at St. Olave's, Hart Street on 21 August 1816.<ref name=":1" />
He had a bachelor of arts degree from Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1839 and he received his master of arts degree on 30 June 1843.<ref name=":1" />
== Career == He was ordained as a Deacon by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1840 before becoming a priest on 19 December 1841.<ref name=":1" /> In 1843, he moved to Audley, Oxfordshire and then on to St. Mary's vicarage in Leicester before working in Lancaster, Burstow, Winchester, Child's Wickham, and back to Leicester again.<ref name=":1" />
He wrote the ''Schools of Ancient Philosophy'' and is best known for his English annotations to Aristotle's ''Categories'', and his un-annotated translation of the other four tractates of the ''Organon'' which were published by Bohn in 1853 and 1877.<ref name=":1" /> His book ''Refutation of Spinoza'' was published by Constible in 1855, and his book ''The Holy War Versified'' was published in 1859.<ref name=":1" />
He edited ''Gay's Fables,'' published by Routledge in 1854, followed by ''An Analysis of the Fifth Book of Hookers Ecclesiastical Polity''.<ref name=":1" />
In addition to his work as a scholastic aristotelianism and philosopher, Owen was the domestic chaplain to the Duke of Portland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG229005 |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.britishmuseum.org}}</ref>
== Family life == He married English author and poet Emily Owen (born 6 February 1822, fourth daughter of William Montague J.P.) on 21 September 1843.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
They had five sons and five daughters, including:<ref name=":1" />
# Theodore Montague Nugent born 14 November 1844, became a vicar and married Sarah Elworthy in 1872. They had nine children. # Mary Edith Montague born 24 July 1847, and married Henry Hugh. They had five daughters. # Florence Emily Octavia born in Burstow on 11 July 1849. # Eustace Clare Lennox born in Burstow on 1 July 1851, and became an architect. # Rupert Kenneth Wilson born in Burstow on 3 April 1853, and worked as a clerk for H. M. Civil Service. He married Annie Julia of Gloucester 9 February 1882. # Ethel Rose Marie Josephine born 5 April 1855. # Angela Vera Zoe Gwendoline born 11 April 1857. # Geraldine Anna Violet born 22 January 1862.
== Death == He died on 16 April 1873 and was buried in Woking.<ref name=":1" />
==Published works==
* Categories - annotated * On Interpretation * [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_isagogue_02_translation.htm Porphyry, ''Isagoge''], translation by Octavius Freire Owen (1853)
==References== {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Works by Owen at Wikisource * "Owen, Octavius Freire," in ''Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886'', by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
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