John Owen

John Owen (born c. 1560, Plas-du, Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died 1622, London, Eng.) was a Welsh epigrammatist whose perfect mastery of the Latin language brought him the name of “the British Martial,” after the ancient Roman poet. Owen was educated at Winchester School and at New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of his college from 1584 to 1591, when he became a schoolmaster, first at Trelleck, near Monmouth in Wales, and then in about 1594...