A memorial service was held for Sir John Owen in Coventry Cathedral on Thursday March 24 at 3pm. The service was open to any Brasenose alumni that wanted to attend.
Sir John Arthur Dalziel Owen was born in Stockport and attended Solihull School. He first came to Brasenose College during the war to read Law but after a few months he was called up to the second King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, and spent time in India just before the country achieved independence. He returned to Brasenose in 1947, earning a half-blue for athletics during his time at Oxford, and was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1951. He went on to become a High Court judge who presided over a number of high profile cases. He was also for twenty years The Dean of Arches, sitting on the ecclesiastical court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.