Early Life
Born in London to Tom and Edna, he moved with his family when young to Kingswood, Surrey, and was raised there and in the Redhill and Reigate area. Owen was initially educated at Hamsey Green primary school, Sanderstead. But after his mother died when he was aged eight from rheumatic fever, he was raised by his father and sent for a period to boarding school, at what is today The Beacon School, Banstead. He left what was then West Ewell secondary modern, Danetree Road, with five O-levels.
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