English physician and politician
George Owen (1499–1558), from Oxford and Godstow , Oxfordshire, was an English royal physician and politician.
Owen was born in the Diocese of Worcester and educated at Merton College, Oxford .[ 1] Fellow of the college.
George Owen was the royal physician to several members of the Tudor dynasty : Henry VIII , Edward VI , and Mary I .[ 2] Thomas Wendy and Edmund Harman .
He was also a Member of the Parliament of England for Oxfordshire in 1558.[ 1]
Owen owned Wolvercote Manor and Mill, north of Oxford .[ 3] Mayor of Oxford from enclosing Wolvercote Common where the villagers of Wolvercote traditionally had grazing rights. Following the dissolution of Rewley Abbey , he also acquired the manor of Yarnton .[ 4]
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries , St Alban Hall , Oxford, became the property of the Crown , and Henry VIII granted it to Owen, who conveyed it to Sir John Williams and Sir John Gresham . In 1547 they transferred the hall to John Pollard and Robert Perrot, who sold it to the Warden and Fellows of Merton College.[ 5]
References
^ a b Harding, Alan. "Owen, George (by 1499–1558), of Oxford and Godstow, Oxon" . The History of Parliament . Memory Biographies. Vol. 1509–1558. UK. Retrieved 25 October 2012 . ^ Lee, Sidney , ed. (1895). "Owen, George (d.1558)" Dictionary of National Biography ^ Hibbert, Christopher , ed. (1988). "Wolvercote". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford Macmillan . pp. 498–499. ISBN 0-333-39917-X .^ 'Grants in May 1539', in J. Gairdner and R.H. Brodie (eds), Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII , Vol. 14 Part 1: January–July 1539 (HMSO, London 1894), no. 9 (British History Online).
^ "The historical register of the University of Oxford: being a supplement to the Oxford University calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity term 1888", pp. 214–215
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