Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. Alexander Milstead Owen

Mr. Alexander Milstead Owen, F.I.A.N.Z., Organist of Trinity Congregational Church, hails from London, where he was born in 1864. He was educated at Kingston Grammar School, where he commenced his musical studies and gained a first prize. Mr. Owen arrived in Lyttelton in 1879 by the ship Euterpe.” He received instruction from Messrs. Normington and Searell, and was appointed organist as above in 1882. Mr. Owen was brought up as an accountant, and for seven years was chief accountant in the firm of Messrs. Sclanders and Co., of Christchurch. He was appointed secretary and manager of the Christchurch Working Men's Co-operative Society in 1894. Mr. Owen was married in 1889 to a daughter of Mr. James Woodham, a pioneer settler of Christchurch; this lady page 205 died in 1893, leaving one son and one daughter. Mr. Owen was again married to a daughter of Mr. G. H. Greenwood, late of Messrs. Nelson, Moate and Co., by whom he has one son and one daughter.

Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. A. M. Owen.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. A. M. Owen.