1804-24 APPRENTICED TO LEONARD DICKSON ii 
^S-rter King of Arms, promised me a place in 
Heralds’ College.’ In a footnote he added many 
years after : ‘ Which luckily I did not get, Garter 
dying before I was of age for such office.’ 
Soon after leaving school he was apprenticed 
ffi ‘ Leonard Dickson, of Lancaster, Surgeon and 
Apothecary,’ as his indenture, dated August 1 1 , 
^820, shows. According to the terms of this 
document he was to be provided by his mother 
'^ith ‘ meat, drink, washing and lodging, and 
also decent and suitable cloathes and wear- 
''ig apparel,’ and his master was on his part to 
teach him the ‘ arts, businesses, professions, 
and mysteries of a surgeon apothecary and 
ttian midwife, with every circumstance relating 
thereto.’ 
Mr. Dickson died two years after, and 
Richard Owen was ‘ assigned, transferred, and 
turned over ’ by the executors to J oseph Seed for 
the term of five years, the indenture of this trans- 
fer bearing the date of June 19, 1822. The 
following year Mr. Seed accepted a post as 
Surgeon in the Royal Navy,® and Owen was 
tigain transferred, by an indenture dated Decern- 
. it IS probably from this to sea, sir? You might just 
^fcumstance that the idea of as well go to the devil.’ The 
Wen’s entering the Navy ori- Professor once assured the 
ginated. The story has been writer that this story, though 
extensively quoted and elabo- ingenious, had no foundation 
^ted into an anecdote in which in fact. 
-^tiernethy says to Owen, ‘ Going 
