Tag: Victorian Montgomeryshire

• Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen (1836–1905): A Liberal Landowner in a Changing Wales

  

  In the political and civic history of Montgomeryshire during the nineteenth century, Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen stands as a representative figure of a transitional generation. Born into the professional middle ranks of respectable society, but elevated through inheritance into the county gentry, Humphreys-Owen embodied the gradual adaptation of the landed class to the expanding civic and…

  Antony David Davies

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