Sir Richard Owen : his life and works / by C.W.G. Rohrer.

  • Rohrer, C. W. G. (Caleb Wyand Geeting), 1873-1952.
Date:
[1911]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sir Richard Owen : his life and works / by C.W.G. Rohrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1134] voted. Part of a manuscript treatise on “ Heraldry” still exists, which he wrote about this time, as well as an elabo- rately painted coat of arms of the Owen and Eskrigge family. Early Education. Soon after leaving school Richard Owen was apprenticed to “ Leonard Dickson, of Lancaster, Surgeon and Apothe- cary,” as his indenture dated August 11, 1820, shows. Ac- cording to the terms of this document Owen was to be pro- vided by his mother with “ meat, drink, washing and lodg- ing, and also decent and suitable clothes and wearing ap- parel,” and his master was on his part to teach him the “ arts, businesses, professions, and mysteries of a surgeon- apothecary and man midwife, with every circumstance re- lating thereto.” Mr. Dickson died two years after, and Richard Owen was “ assigned, transferred, and turned over ” by the executors to Joseph Seed for the term of five years, the indenture of this transfer bearing the date of June 19, 1822. The fol- lowing year Mr. Seed accepted a post as surgeon in the Royal Navy, and Owen was again transferred, by an inden- ture dated December 13, 1823, to James Stockdale Harrison, “ Surgeon and Apothecary.” There is appended to the indenture to Seed a certificate in Joseph Seed’s handwriting, which contains the following paragraph: Mr. Richard Owen’s general conduct during the time he was with me has my highest commendation, and at all times I shall be happy to bear testimony to his most deserving merit, as well as to his respectability. (Signed) J. Seed, Surgeon Royal Navy. Lancaster, January 10, 1827. The terms of Owen’s surgical apprenticeship at Lancaster were never carried out to the full. In October, 1824, he matriculated at Edinburgh University. Some of his lecture cards of admission are still preserved. We gather from them that he attended, besides numerous other lectures, the ana-