Violet Owen

{{Short description|British tennis and field hockey player}}

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Violet Owen (15 February 1902 – 22 October 1998) was a British tennis and hockey player. She captained the British hockey team, and played at the Wimbledon tennis championships every year from 1926 to 1933, reaching eighth in the British rankings.{{cite web |title=Players archive – Violet Own |url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/draws_archive/player_profile/c9a4f0fb-c0db-46b2-a6c7-bfc47c23a1fc.html |website=Wimbledon |publisher=AELTC}} She won the women's doubles at the British Hard Court Championships in 1927 partnering Agnes Tuckey.{{cite web|title=Obituary: Violet Owen|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-violet-owen-1187339.html|website=The Independent|access-date=14 July 2016|date=26 November 1998}} She was a runner-up in singles and doubles at the 1929 German Championships in Hamburg.{{cite book|editor1-last=Myers|editor1-first=A. Wallis|editor-link=A. Wallis Myers|title=Ayres' Lawn Tennis Almanack|year=1930|pages=482–483|publisher=F.H. Ayres Ltd.|location=London}}

She was born Violet Chamberlain in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, on 15 February 1902. In 1930, she married Llewellyn Gordon Owen, also a notable sportsman, having played tennis at Wimbledon and football for Aston Villa and Wales.{{cite web|url=http://cartophilic-info-exch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/villa-news-record-our-picture-gallery.html|publisher=cartophilic-info-exch.blogspot.co.uk|title=Football Cartophilic Info Exchange: Villa News & Record – Our Picture Gallery|access-date=9 September 2016}}

They had three children, John, Geoffrey and Ann. Ann and Geoffrey both played at Wimbledon, and Geoffrey became editor of the Financial Times, was knighted in 1989, and later married literary editor Miriam Gross.{{cite news |title= Last and best of the great literary editors |author= Johnson, Daniel |newspaper= The Jewish Chronicle |date=5 October 2012|url= https://www.thejc.com/culture/books/last-and-best-of-the-great-literary-editors-1.36873|accessdate=8 September 2023}}