Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who coined the term Dinosauria and campaigned for the natural history collections of the British Museum to be given an independent home, resulting in the founding of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, in 1881.
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Sir Richard Owen KCB FRS FRMS (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
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Born: 20 July 1804, Lancaster, England. Died: 18 December 1892 (aged 88), Richmond Park, London, England.
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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 now world-famous Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London.
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