Lieutenant Colonel Roger Carmichael Robert Owen CMG OBE (1866-1941) was a British military officer who joined the Sudan service in 1903. He was Sudan Agent in Cairo from 1905 to 1908. Owen was then appointed Governor of Mongalla Province in South Sudan from 1908 to 1918. Owen was born in 1866 in Writtle, Essex, England the son of the local vicar the Reverend Loftus Owen and his wife Emma (nee Kenworthy). He was educated at Rossall School, where he was a noted athlete. In August 1884 he was commissioned in 3rd Batallion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. In 1888 he transferred to The Oxfordshire Light Infantry.