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Owen, Richard, Sir
Owen, Richard, Sir
Person · 1804-1892

Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered for coining the word Dinosauria, meaning terrible reptile or fearfully great reptile. An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred, but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. Owen was the first President of the Microscopical Society of London in 1839 and edited many issues of its journal, The Microscopic Journal. Owen also campaigned for the natural specimens in the British Museum to be given a new home. This resulted in the establishment, in 1881, of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington.
Owen, Francis Philip Cunliffe-, Sir
Person · 1828-1894

Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen was an exhibition organiser and the Director of the South Kensington Museum in London
Owen, Eirwen M
Person · 1914

She became Head of General Department in 1958, Assistant Controller in 1964, Assistant to the Director-General in 1966, and Director of Administration in 1967
Owen, E
Person · 1914-
Outram, James, Sir
Person · 1803-1863

Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram was a British general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Otto, Ruby
Person · 1888-

Temporary Toileteer at ZSL London Zoo
Osman-Hill, William Charles
Person · 1901-1975

Dr William Charles Osman-Hill was a British anatomist, primatologist and an authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century. He wrote an eight volume series called 'Primates: Comparative Anatomy and Taxonomy', which covered all living and extinct species known at the time in full detail and contained illustrations created by his wife, Yvonne.

He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham, and later obtained his degrees from the University of Birmingham. He obtained his primary medical degrees in 1924, and the same year took on the role of lecturer in zoology. He earned his MD with honours in 1925. He also earned his Ch.B while in medical school.

Upon graduation, Osman-Hill continued his role as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham under an apprenticeship until 1930, but teaching anatomy instead of zoology. In 1930 he moved to Sri Lanka to become both Chair of Anatomy and Professor of Anatomy at the Ceylon Medical College. His position allowed him to pursue anthropological studies of the indigenous Veddah people and comparative anatomy of primates. During this time, he began developing a private menagerie of exotic and native species. Osman-Hill held this position in Sri Lanka for 14 years, returning to the United Kingdom after being appointed as Reader in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in 1945. Upon his departure from Sri Lanka, his menagerie was divided between London Zoo and the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka.

In 1950 he became Prosector at the Zoological Society of London and remained there for twelve years. He left London Zoo in 1962.

Between 1957 and 1958, Osman Hill acted as a visiting scholas at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Later in 1958, primatologist Jane Goodall studied primate behaviour under him. In 1962, he was hired as the assistant director of the Yerkes National Primate Center in Atlanta.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh honoured him as a fellow in 1955, and for his contributions to science awarded him both its Gold Medal and the Macdougal-Brisbane Prize. Upon his retiring from YNPRC in 1969, the Royal College of Surgeons of England made him a Hunterian Trustee.