Owens College, Manchester, a non-sectarian university, founded by John Owens, a liberal Churchman, in 1846, and supported as well as extended by subsequent bequests, the medical school of which is one of the finest in the kingdom; of the students attending it in 1897-98, 639 were arts students, 99 women, and 418 medicals.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Owen, Robert * Oxenford, John