| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| Owen Thomas | |
| Term Start: | 14 December 1918 |
| Term End: | 6 March 1923 |
| Birth Name: | Owen Thomas |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1858 |
| Resting Place: | Ebenezer Cemetery, Llanfechell |
| Spouse: | Frederica Pershouse |
| Children: | 5 |
| Mother: | Ellen Thomas |
| Father: | Owen Thomas |
| Mawards: | is not set --> |
| Unit: | 3rd (Militia) Battalion Manchester Regiment 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers Prince of Wales Light Horse Regiment |
| Commands: | Prince of Wales Light Horse |
Sir Owen Thomas, JP, DL (18 December 1858 – 6 March 1923)[1] was a Welsh politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Anglesey.
Thomas was born at Carrog on Anglesey on 18 December 1858.[1] He was educated at Liverpool College, and afterwards became a farmer.[1]
As a farmer, during 1893-7 he sat as member of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression; he and Lord Rendel were the only representatives of Wales on that body.[1] Thomas took an interest in politics and stood unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in Oswestry at the 1895 United Kingdom general election.[2] At the 1918 United Kingdom general election, he was elected for Anglesey as an independent labour candidate.[3] He joined the Labour Party group in Parliament but resigned the party whip in 1920, and was re-elected in 1922 as an independent.[4] He died in 1923, causing the 1923 Anglesey by-election.
Thomas raised[1] the Prince of Wales Light Horse regiment in 1899 to serve in the Second Boer War.[5] He commanded the regiment and later became the Brigadier-General commanding the North Wales Brigade. He also served as chief officer of the Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea section of the Board of Trade, and in his spare time bred farm stock.[6]
He was knighted on 21 February 1917.[1]