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Owen then relates his journey back to town 
and concludes : ‘ I may just mention having been 
for the first time, last night, at the House of 
Lords. Blantyre, being admitted in his own 
right, gave me an order which Lord Southampton 
had sent him. I heard the Duke of Wellington, 
Earl Grey, the Chancellor (Brougham), Duke of 
Sussex, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Eldon, 
and a few others speak, and saw some of the 
“forms” of the “House.” I shall now settle 
down with goodwill to my usual occupations, 
which, believe me, I would not exchange for the 
duties of the Premier. I did not envy his or 
the Chancellor’s compulsory attendance for a long 
and tedious sitting in a close and over-heated 
apartment.’ 
Early in 1834 Owen was appointed to the 
newly established chair of Comparative Anatomy 
at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Here he num- 
bered amongst his pupils Rymer Jones, Arthur 
Farre, and William (afterwards Sir William) 
White Cooper, all of whom became his intimate 
friends. 
In the same year Owen was elected F.R.S. 
The original certificate stands as follows ; — 
‘ Richard Owen, Esq., Assistant Conservator 
in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 
■ — a gentleman intimately acquainted with Physi- 
ology. Comparative Anatomy, and the various 
branches of Natural History, author of a paper on 
