Owen continued as Chaplain General when on 1 June 1820 he was appointed Rector of St. Martin's Church in East Horsley, Surrey. He died on 4 June 1824 in East Horsley, and is buried at St. Martins in a family vault. He left more than £100,000 of his fortune to just his family, in addition to two or three equally large legacies to bible and missionary societies, including the British and Foreign Bible Society.Owen is not to be confused with John Owen (1766–1822), who was secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was succeeded as Archdeacon of Richmond by Henry Law, and as Chaplain General by Robert Hodgson. There is a portrait of John Owen by John Opie in the Museum of Army Chaplaincy in Amport House, Andover, Hampshire that was painted when Owen was 28 years old, just before he went to India.see
