Richard Owen
Standard Name: Owen, Richard
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1831
The Philpot sisters—Mary
, Margaret
and Elizabeth
—of Lyme Regis established a fossil museum which became famous; they supplied material to such geologists as William Buckland
, Richard Owen
, and Henry de la Beche
.
1841
Richard Owen
coined the term dinosaur.
1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
29 December 1856
The custom of enclosing piano legs in fabric because of their indelicacy (often attributed to the Victorians) was observed by Richard Owen
as a habit of Yankees, unfamiliar to an Englishman.