Edward Owen (translator)

Edward Owen (1728 or 1729 – April 1807) was a Welsh Anglican priest, headmaster and translator.

Edward Owen

Life

Owen was born in 1728 or 1729 (since he was noted to be 17 years old when he matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford in March 1746). His father was from Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, Wales. After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1749 and his Master of Arts degree in 1752, Owen became headmaster of Warrington grammar school in 1757 and rector of Warrington in 1767. He remained rector until his death in 1807 and was held in high regard in the area, both as schoolmaster and priest. The scholar Gilbert Wakefield described him as "a man of most elegant learning, unimpeachable veracity, and peculiar benevolance of heart."[1]

Owen's main work was a translation of Juvenal's Satires, "cleared of all the most exceptionable passages" (1785, reprinted in 1786 with a translation of works by the Roman poet Persius). The work was not successful. He also published textbooks on Latin grammar and metre.[1]

gollark: **How** *cool* __is__ ***the*** `kit`?
gollark: The PotatOS Compute Network™ has offloaded some tasks to your computer, so the fans are running to keep it cool.
gollark: As explained in Bee utilization part 1, bee actions require a Bee Poll to pass.
gollark: I can't do that without a Bee Poll.
gollark: Well, apparently it can't work on windows 98, because I used an exploit in the Win98 network stack to execute a program on your emulated Windows 98 computer which would overwrite the (virtual) boot sector and make it nonfunctional.

References
  1. Sutton, C. W.; Brown, Sarah Annes (2004). "Owen, Edward (1728/9–1807)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.



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