What’s in a name? Three Hugh Owens

Author:

Andrew Shepherd

Report:

49

Page:

97

Year:

2022

Subject Matter:

British in Portugal

Excerpt:

This article explores the links between three people called Hugh Owen: Colonel Hugh Owen (1784-1860), who joined the British Army, served in Portugal, including at the Battle of Talavera in 1809, then married and settled down in Porto, where he supported the Liberal side during the Civil War; his son, also Hugh (1825-91), who worked for D. Pedro from the age of seven, but about whom relatively little is known, except that he became a Baron; and Hugh Owen (1808-1897), a pioneer photographer from Bristol, who exhibited photographs of Portugal in London in 1855. The confusion and connection between the son and the photographer become clear as the article progresses.

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