PROFESSOR OWEN 



CH. I. 



who was curate of the parish as well as head- 

 master of the school. There is nothing to be 

 seen of the old school now, except perhaps the 

 dated stone which used to be over the porchway. 



THE HOUSE IN THURNHAM STREET, LANCASTER, 

 WHERE OWEN WAS BORN 



The New Grammar School was built in a dif- 

 ferent part of the town. Whewell, the famous 

 Master of Trinity, who was Owen's fellow-towns- 

 man, also received his education there, and 

 another schoolfellow, who was in the same class 



