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Gwyn, Owen
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d 1633
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Admitted to St John's, 1584; graduated BA, 1588 and MA, 1591. Was a Fellow of the College by 1595. BD, 1599. Held the rectories (consecutively) of: Honington, Suffolk; East Ham, Essex; South Luffenham, Rutland. Senior Bursar of St John's, 1607-1610; Master, 1612-1633. Under his Mastership, important improvements were made to the administration and recordkeeping of the College. Made Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1615. Made archdeacon of Huntingdon and held a prebend at Lincoln Cathedral from 1622. Initiated the building of a new library at St John's, which was completed in 1624. Buried in the College Chapel.
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- H F Howard, An Account of the Finances of The College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926 (Cambridge, 1935).
- Elizabeth Allen, 'Gwyn, Owen', in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/65642.