Sir Richard Owen

(1804-1892)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 NRA: Owen, Sir Richard (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist DNB: Owen, Sir Richard (1804–1892), comparative anatomist and palaeontologist LBT ID: RiOwen1892 VIAF ID: 64089233 LOC ID: n80004117	B/BAP: 1804-07-20 DIED: 1892-12-18
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Educated at Edinburgh University, he was Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology (1836) and superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum (1856).
REFERENCES TO Sir Richard Owen: Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 106