John Owens

John Owens

male, deceased (1846)
From Manchester, University of Manchester, OwensCollege, Victoria University of Manchester
John Owens (1790-1846), English merchant, was born in Manchester, England in 1790, the son of a prosperous merchant. Early in life he became a...
George Gissing

George Gissing

male, deceased (1903)
novelist, chicago tribune, Short story writer, wakefield, English, scholarship…OwensCollege
George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was an English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his...
Arthur Schuster

Arthur Schuster

male, deceased (1934)
Sir (Franz) Arthur (Friedrich) Schuster, British-Germans, Academic of the University of Manchester, Knights Bachelor, From FRANKFURT, German…OwensCollege
Sir (Franz) Arthur (Friedrich) Schuster FRS (September 12 1851 - October 17 1934) was a versatile physicist known for his work in spectroscopy,...
Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds

male, deceased (1912)
physicist, engineer, cambridge university, belfast, British, Irish…OwensCollege, Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Osborne Reynolds (23 August, 1842-21 February, 1912) was a British fluid dynamics engineer. He was born in Belfast, Ireland and died in Watchet in...
Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden

male, deceased (1940)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Tettenhall College, OwensCollege, Lister Institute, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Arthur Harden (October 12 1865-June 17 1940) was an English biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon...
Henry Enfield Roscoe

Henry Enfield Roscoe

male, deceased (1915)
English, Alumni of University College London, Tungsten, uranium, oxygen, University College London…OwensCollege
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (January 7, 1833 - 1915) was an English chemist, born in London. After studying at the Liverpool Institute for Boys and...
Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson

male, deceased (1902)
Scottish, A. Campbell Fraser, W. S. Jevons, German philosophy, Encyclopædia Britannica, LL.D.…OwensCollege
Robert Adamson was a Scottish philosopher. He was born in Edinburgh. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was the daughter of Matthew Buist,...
William Boyd Dawkins

William Boyd Dawkins

male, deceased (1929)
Old Rossallian, Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, Archaeologist, British, Fellow of the Royal Society, channel tunnel…OwensCollege
Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins was an English geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator...
Oliver Heywood

Oliver Heywood

male, deceased (1892)
Grade II listed buildings in Manchester, banker, English, Chetham's Hospital, Freemen of the City of Manchester, Manchester Mechanics' Institute…OwensCollege, eton college
Oliver Heywood was an English banker and philanthropist. Born in Manchester, the son of Benjamin Heywood, and educated at Eton College, Heywood...
Richard Copley Christie

Richard Copley Christie

male, deceased (1901)
Biographer, chancellor, nottinghamshire, quadrangle, Political economy, English…OwensCollege, Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford, Lincoln College, Oxford
Richard Copley Christie (July 22, 1830 - January 9, 1901) was an English scholar and bibliophile. He was born at Lenton in Nottinghamshire, the son...