Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Owen Nares n.

[rhy. sl.; ult. UK actor Owen Nares (c.1888–1943)]

chairs.

1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 842: since ca. 1910.
1992		R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.