Richard Owen

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 .

Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur.

Richard Owen , a rival of Darwin and Huxley , was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum .

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.