Frank Owen (1) (1905–1979)

Humphrey Frank Owen (27 September 1905 – 23 January 1979) was a British journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament. He was a Lloyd Georgite Liberal MP for Hereford between 1929 and 1931. He worked as a journalist and became editor of the Evening Standard in 1938 and the Daily Mail in 1947. During the War he edited SEAC, The Services Newspaper of South East Asia Command. After a period as a television journalist, he again fought the Hereford seat in 1955 and in a by-election in 1956. He was one of the authors of Guilty Men, a denunciation of appeasement published in summer of 1940. He wrote a biography Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times (Hutchinson of London; 1954).