In 1851 Owens College opened in a house on Quay Street in central Manchester. It was named for John Owens, an unmarried Manchester merchant and industrialist who had died in 1846. He left most of his ...

THE Manchester Guardian of July 27 contained an . appreciations of John Owens, the founder of Owens College Manchester, now the University of Manchester, who died on July 29, 1846, at the age of ...

John Owens (1790–1846) was a cotton merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Owens College, one of the predecessors of The University of Manchester. Dr James Hopkins, University Historian and Heritage ...

IT is now upwards of twenty-two years since this college was opened—for the foundation of which in Manchester, John Owens, a merchant of that city, left 100,000l.—in a house that belonged to ...