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John Owen

1827 - 1901

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John Owen (8 April 1827 – 24 November 1901) was an English vicar and amateur chess master. He ranked among the world's top ten chess players for certain periods of the 1860s. He was a major figure in English chess from the mid-1850s to the 1890s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Owen is the 214th most popular chess player (down from 202nd in 2024), the 5,111th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,009th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, John Owen ranks 214 out of 461. Before him are Alexei Shirov, Nana Ioseliani, Herman Steiner, Levente Lengyel, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Ľubomír Ftáčnik. After him are Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Larissa Volpert, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, and John Nunn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, John Owen ranks 68. Before him are José Manuel Marroquín, Lev Lagorio, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Quintino Sella, Emma Schenson, and Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford. After him are Richard Morris Hunt, Mary Ward, Henry Warner Slocum, Milton Latham, and Augustus Pitt Rivers. Among people deceased in 1901, John Owen ranks 96. Before him are Ignatius L. Donnelly, Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Artur Hazelius, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Lorenzo Snow, and Kliment of Tarnovo. After him are John Stainer, and Walter Besant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Owen ranks 5,113 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Townsend (1880), Mary Lamb (1764), R. J. Mitchell (1895), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), and Bob Gerard (1914). After him are Mary Millar (1936), Hugh Blair (1718), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Ann Sidney (1944), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), and Ted Morgan (1906).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, John Owen ranks 11. Before him are Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Fred Yates (1884), Horatio Caro (1862), Amos Burn (1848), and Jonathan Penrose (1933). After him are John Nunn (1955), Tony Miles (1955), Harry Golombek (1911), Raymond Keene (1948), Stuart Conquest (1967), and Jovanka Houska (1980).

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