i8o4-24 RICHARD OWEN GOES TO SCHOOL 5 
the bank, as you may now call there for what 
you want with more confidence.’ 
The loss which this transaction entailed on 
Richard Owen evidently preyed upon his mind. 
Two years afterwards he died. 
In 1808, a year before his death, he wrote 
again to his wife from St. Kitt’s. In this letter 
he refers to his losses, but, what is more impor- 
tant, he adds ; ‘ I am glad to know J ames ^ and 
Richard come on so well with their studies and 
are so attentive.’ In October 1809 Richard 
Owen died at the age of fifty-four, according to 
an entry in a little old note-book, tied up with a 
faded pink ribbon, and headed ‘ Kitty Parrin’s 
Memorandum-book.’ 
The next entry in this little note-book is that 
of the death of Mrs. Owen’s eldest son : — 
'April 22, 1827. — My eldest boy, James 
Hawkins Owen, died at Demerara of yellow 
fever, and was buried there.’ 
Long before that date Mrs. Owen was living 
with her six children in a house In Thurn- 
ham Street, at the corner of Dalton Square, 
Lancaster, and this old house is still in existence. 
After some preparatory instruction from an old 
Quaker lady, Richard Owen, at the mature age of 
six, was sent to the Lancaster Grammar School 
to join his elder brother, James, by the advice 
of his godfather, the Rev. Joseph Rowley, 
* Professor Oweri’s elder brother. 
