1804-24 
PARSON ROWLEY 
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as Owen’s elder brother, was Higgin, late Bishop 
of Derry. 
Richard Owen always spoke affectionately 
Mr. Rowley, or Parson Rowley as he was 
Called, and was also on good terms with two of 
^0 other masters of the school, the Revs. E. 
orland and J. Beetham. How he got on with 
IS other tutors is not so certain. One of them 
stigmatised him as ‘ lazy and impudent,’ and 
prophesied that he would come to a bad end. 
nis gentleman gave instruction in caligraphy, 
ot m spite of his dismal predictions he managed 
to teach Owen to write a remarkably clear and 
tieat hand, which hardly varied till within a few 
years of his death. 
Between twelve and two o’clock the boys left 
sc ool for dinner. It so happened that the 
gardens belonging to Mrs. Owen and to Mr. 
owley adjoined each other, and on one occasion 
e carpenter, Whewell’s father, was engaged in 
repairing the division fence. Mr. Rowley was 
''talking in his garden before school began 
^gam, and there met young Whewell, who was 
assisting his father in his work. In the course 
conversation Mr. Rowley, who had evidently 
een putting a few professional questions to the 
cyj was struck with the real intelligence of his 
answers, and the evident knowledge of mathe- 
l^atics which he displayed. He told Whewell’s 
er that he thought his son ought to be sent 
