Mr Robert Owen JP DL was Vice Lord-Lieutenant from December 2018 to June 2024. He was High Sheriff of Merseyside 2015-16.
Born in Liverpool in 1949, he was educated at Booker Avenue School, Quarry Bank High School and Liverpool Polytechnic where he obtained a Diploma in Architecture in 1973.
Robert Owen was a founding partner, in 1980, of Owen Ellis Architects and, prior to retirement in April 2012, was one of four directors of the practice which has specialisms in Social Housing, Further and Higher Education, Commercial and Retail Development, the Health and Care Home Sectors and Rail Infrastructure. The practice also gained extensive experience of working with charitable bodies and a range of religious denominations.
From April 2012 to March 2020 Robert was a lay chair of Fitness to Practise panels in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
He served as a magistrate on the Liverpool bench as a Justice of the Peace for a period of 39 years from 1980 to 2019.
In 2004 he was elected Chair of the bench’s Youth Panel, a post he held for five years.
In 2003 he became a trustee of a charity, Local Solutions, and was appointed Chairman of its Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2013. During his tenure the charity, which is based in Liverpool, employed nearly 1,200 people and had an annual turnover in excess of £19m.
Robert was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside in early 2013.
He has played an active role in a wide range of organisations, mainly on Merseyside, including;
Robert’s main leisure pursuits are golf, craft woodwork, gardening and watercolour and acrylic painting. He has been a Liverpool FC season ticket holder since 1970.
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