{"id":608227,"date":"2025-12-02T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608227\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:50:15","slug":"true-liverpool-gentleman-to-be-remembered-at-new-5m-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608227\/","title":{"rendered":"‘True Liverpool gentleman’ to be remembered at new \u00a35m centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work on the site will begin in Spring next year\"BarryBarry Owen, founder of Mason Owen, died at the age of 82(Image: Sane Seven)<\/p>\n

The garden of a new \u00a35m cancer centre is to be dedicated to a \u201ctrue Liverpool gentleman\u201d who died earlier this year<\/a>. Barry Owen was the co-founder of city-based property consultancy firm Mason Owen, which he established with Geoff Mason in 1967.<\/p>\n

He died at the age of 82 in April. Ahead of construction beginning on the latest Maggie\u2019s Cancer Centre on the site of the old Royal Liverpool University Hospital<\/a> next year, it has been confirmed the garden in the grounds of the new facility will be named in Mr Owen\u2019s honour.<\/p>\n

Mr Owen\u2019s wife, Susanne said: \u201cThis will be a very special place that I\u2019m sure people will treasure.\u201d The new Maggie\u2019s will be the 29th and the third funded by the Steve Morgan<\/a> Foundation.<\/p>\n

Barry Owen was born in Stockport on April 29, 1942, to parents who were both from Liverpool. The family returned to the city after WWII and Mr Owen attended Birkenhead<\/a> School during the 1950s, before studying economics and economic history at the University of Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to business and charity in Liverpool and was also a fellow of Liverpool John Moores University. Mr Owen took great solace from the garden at his family home near Chester in the latter stages of his own cancer journey.<\/p>\n

Work on the new Maggie\u2019s centre, to be built at the junction of Prescot<\/a> Street and Daulby Street in Liverpool, is set to begin in March next year. Planning permission for the \u00a35m centre was granted by the city council in September.<\/p>\n

Mrs Owen said: \u201cBarry took such great comfort from walking in our garden and sitting amidst the plants and flowers. He would be so pleased to think that others coping with the impact of cancer could do likewise, particularly in the city he loved so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Maggie\u2019s will be the 29th and the third funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation, with others on Wirral<\/a> and in north Wales to have benefitted from the Redrow founder\u2019s personal charity. Mr Morgan said: \u201cThe ethos of our foundation is to \u2018give money away well\u2019, and I\u2019m sure many will want to follow that principle, too, as they acknowledge Barry\u2019s great contribution to civic and business life.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery penny will go towards helping people in the Liverpool area with their cancer journey \u2013 a tough road to travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

An appeal to help fund the support services and therapy activities that will be delivered in the garden to people with cancer, as well as their families has been backed by a number of founding donors, including Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation, the Boodles Charitable Trust, Mason Owen, Jim Clarke and Andy and Patricia Pritchard.<\/p>\n

A JustGiving crowdfunding page has been launched to allow everyone who knew Mr Owen to have the opportunity to back the project and leave a message.<\/p>\n

Jim Davies, one of Mr Owen\u2019s closest friends and co-founder of international law firm DWF, said: \u201cIt was standing room only in the Anglican Cathedral and that says it all for me.<\/p>\n

“Barry gave so much to his home city, and with the help of his many friends and colleagues, this garden and the care and services offered in it will be his last great gift.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a remarkably generous man, and now he\u2019s asking us to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work on the site will begin in Spring next yearBarry Owen, founder of Mason Owen, died at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,51,393,4884,179,14487,39842,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-608227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-council","14":"tag-royal-liverpool-hospital","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115652188102530510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}