Frank Owen (politician)

Humphrey Frank Owen (27 September 1905 – 23 January 1979) was a British journalist and radical Liberal Member of Parliament. He was Liberal MP for Hereford between 1929 and 1931. He was editor of the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail. He was awarded the OBE in 1946.

He was the son of an innkeeper Thomas Humphrey Owen and Cicely Hannah Green, of Hereford. He was educated at Monmouth School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge with honours in economics and history. He married, in 1939, Grace Stewart McGillivray of Boston, USA. She died in 1968.

He worked as a journalist on the South Wales Argus, 1928–29, and the Daily Express, 1931–37. He was editor of the Evening Standard from 1938 to 1941. He was a fierce anti-Nazi, and during the years of appeasement, he made a feature of rewriting Mein Kampf week after week to sound the alarm. In 1940, along with Michael Foot, he was one of the authors of Guilty Men, a denunciation of appeasement and an attack on Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax.

During World War II he served with the Royal Tank Regiment 1942-43 and was commissioned in September 1943. He served with South East Asia Command 1944-46; editing SEAC, the services newspaper of South East Asia Command, at the request of Louis Mountbatten. For his services in South East Asia, Lt-Col Owen was awarded the OBE. He was editor of the Daily Mail from 1947-50.

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