However, it was British anatomist Sir Richard Owen who identified the fossils as the gigantic marsupials Nototherium and Diprotodon.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

* Sir Owen Seaman ( 1906 – 1932 )

The sighting caused quite a stir in the London papers, and Sir Richard Owen, the famous English biologist, proclaimed the beast an elephant seal.

Owen was probably born in about 1400, and may have gone to war in the service of Henry V's steward Sir Walter Hungerford in 1421 in France.

After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, the defeated Lancastrian leader Owen Tudor ( grandfather of the future Henry VII of England ) was taken to Hereford by Sir Roger Vaughan and executed in High Town.

* Admiral Sir Watkin Owen was the son of Samuel Pell of Sywell Hall.

The Company was dominated by Sir Owen Green from 1967 to 1993 first as Managing Director ( until 1986 ) and then as Chairman.

These include the Nocturne, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, the Canticles, the operas Peter Grimes and Albert Herring ( title roles ), his adaption of The Beggar's Opera ( Macheath ), Owen Wingrave ( Sir Philip Wingrave ), Billy Budd ( Captain Vere ), The Turn of the Screw ( Quint ), Death in Venice ( Aschenbach ) and the three Church Parables.

Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst, as well as politician Lord David Owen .< ref >< cite > David Owen biography accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > Limehouse was also the home of the late film director Sir David Lean.

The centre moved into a purpose built modernist building by the architect Sir Owen Williams in 1935.

East Twickenham sits largely on the former Twickenham Park ( estate of Sir Francis Bacon, the 16th century philosopher and Lord Chancellor ) together with the former Cambridge Park, home of Richard Owen Cambridge, the 18th century satirical poet.

* Sir Evan Owen Williams

" At various times the text refers to " Sir Roderick Murchison, Professor ( Richard ) Owen, Professor ( Thomas Henry ) Huxley, ( and ) Mr. Darwin ", and thus they become explicitly part of the story.

Sir Owen Meredith Tudor ( ; c. 1400 – 2 February 1461 ) was a Welsh soldier and courtier, descended from a daughter of the Welsh prince Rhys ap Gruffudd, " Lord Rhys ".

* Sir David Owen ( 1459 – 1528 ), knighted in 1485 by his nephew, King Henry VII, at Milford Haven.

** Sir Henry Owen, who married and had:

*** Anne Owen, married Sir Arthur Hopton

* Sir Owen Richardson ( Physics, 1928 )

Sir Geoffrey Owen was Editor, Financial Times, 1981 – 1990.

: 1981: Sir Geoffrey Owen

Bain discovered many fossil remains, including the herbivorous mammal-like reptile dicynodon Oudenodon bainii Owen, which was excavated from the Karoo Beds on the farm Mildenhall south of Fort Beaufort and described by Sir Richard Owen.

* Sir Owen Willans Richardson ( 1879 – 1959 ), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906 – 1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914 – 1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924 – 1959, Nobel Prize in Physics ( 1928 )

It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.

Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.

Sir Ivor Richardson, Member of the Privy Council, former President of the Court of Appeal, former Dean of Law School

He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson " wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ...

Her final stage performance came in 1966 when she played Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals at the Haymarket Theatre, alongside Sir Ralph Richardson.

A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of the late Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave ( the actress Rachel Kempson ), the sister of the late Lynn Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave.

Samuel Richardson reading aloud the manuscript of Sir Charles Grandison to a group of friends in 1751.

Near the end of 1751, Richardson sent a draft of the novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison to Mrs Donnellan, and the novel was being finalized in the middle of 1752.

The only major work that Richardson would write would be A Collection of the Moral and Instruction Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions, contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.

* Sir Ralph Richardson, actor

* Sir Lewis Richardson, 1st Baronet, of Yellow Woods, in the Cape of Good Hope Province, in South Africa ( 1924 ), extant

Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall.

Alexander's son Sir William Richardson left it to his second son, Alexander, from which the Richardsons of Drum descend.

( The others are Jeanne Eagels, James Dean, Spencer Tracy, Peter Finch, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Heath Ledger.

In 1982, she was touring with Sir Ralph Richardson in Angela Huth's The Gathering and the play's West End run had been announced.

Sir Ralph David Richardson ( 19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983 ) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films.

In 1925 he joined Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Company, where many eminent British actors, from Edith Evans and Cedric Hardwicke to Derek Jacobi, learned their craft, and Richardson under the veteran taskmaster H. K. Ayliff " absorbed the influence of older contemporaries like Gerald du Maurier, Charles Hawtrey and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

In the 1960s, Richardson appeared successfully as Sir Peter Teazle in Gielgud's production of The School for Scandal, as the Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1963 ), a return to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1964 ) and the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce What the Butler Saw in the West End at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Stanley Baxter, Coral Browne and Hayward Morse.

Richardson recorded the narration for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and the superscriptions for Vaughan Williams ' Sinfonia antartica-both with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Prokofiev conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the Vaughan Williams by André Previn.

Sir John Gielgud's autobiography, An Actor and His Time is dedicated " To Ralph and Mu Richardson, with gratitude and affection ".