One of his tenants was Bill Owen, an experienced vintner who dreamed of starting a winery.
He became part of the established line-up with Bill Owen and Peter Sallis - Compo and Clegg - until 2000, when Compo died in the series following the real-life death of Owen.
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Earl Howe, the junior health minister piloting the bill in the Lords, attempted to negotiate a programme for consideration of the bill with Lord Owen - who, as a crossbencher, was in no position to deliver any kind of agreement.
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Lord Owen argues that the bill is now so fiendishly complicated, and so encrusted with amendments, that some sections of it simply cannot be sorted out by a process of adversarial amendment on the floor of the House.
The Northern Ireland Office draft bill long-fingers various other ideas Owen Paterson floated - an extended Stormont term, a smaller assembly or legislation to provide for an opposition.
Lord Owen does not think the bill should be passed until the House of Lords have had "at the very least" a chance to debate the freedom of information ruling that a document called NHS Transitional Risk Register should be disclosed.
Welsh Secretary David Jones and Environment Secretary Owen Paterson voted against the government's bill at its third reading.
The principal speakers and Lead Discussants included: Bill Casey's son-in-law, Professor Owen T.
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Crossbencher Lord Owen said Lord Marks had "succinctly explained what this bill needs".
Lord Owen denies this is a cunning attempt to block the bill - arguing that because the parliamentary year will not end until well after Easter, there is plenty of time to have the debate he wants and then for the bill to reach the statute book.
Whether Lord Owen gets his special select committee to consider aspects of the bill, or not, we can expect a blizzard of amendments to the bill for consideration at committee.
BBC: Parliamentary warfare breaks out in Lords over NHS bill
Last week I posted about crossbench peers Lord Owen and Lord Hennessey's attempt to send sections of the bill to be scrutinised by a special select committee.
But Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith described the draft plans as "a 'lucky losers bill' which helps candidates from minor parties get into the national assembly via the back door".
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Lord Owen, a former GP and health minister who led earlier calls for the bill to receive more committee scrutiny, reiterated his views that the bill was "disastrous" and would "utterly change the principles of the National Health Service".
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist began the long-anticipated debate saying it was time to have an up or down vote on Priscilla Owen, the president's nominee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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