Peter Owen-Jones

Biography

Peter Owen-Jones (b 1957) is an English Anglican clergyman, author and television presenter.

Owen Jones dropped out of public school

at the age of 16 and went to Australia to make his fortune. Back in

Britain, he began his working life as a farm labourer in South Eastern

England and then ran a mobile disco

before moving to London where he started in advertising as a messenger

boy and worked his way up to creative director. In his late 20s and with

a wife and two children, he gave up his commercial life to follow a

calling to the Anglican ministry by enrolling at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. In early 1996 he gained notoriety when he conducted a service for the Newbury bypass protest...