Herbert Isambard Owen

Herbert Isambard Owen (1850-1927) was born at Chepstow in Monmouthshire, south Wales. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1872 and studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, London. He became consultant, lecturer and dean at St. George's and was vice president of the Medical Society of London.

He was involved in the restoration of the Cymmrodorion Society in 1873 and active in campaigns for the preservation and use of the Welsh language. He was prominent in a scheme for the union of the major Welsh higher education establishments and the formation of the University of Wales in 1891-1892 and was deputy chancellor from its foundation in 1894 till 1910. He was principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1904 and vice chancellor of Bristol University from 1909 to 1921. King Edward VII knighted him at his coronation in 1902.

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