Deaths on August 24

John Owen (theologian)

Died on August 24, 1683

John Owen, English theologian and academic (b. 1616)

John Owen (1616 – 24 August 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

He was briefly a member of parliament for the University's constituency, sitting in the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 to 1655.

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