...Henry Enfield Roscoe. Peter J.T. Morris and Peter Reed, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190844257.003.0005 This chapter explores the background to the opening of Owens College, Manchester, in 1851, and how after his appointment...

... be rigorous, teachable and objective. It also analyses the series of debates that surrounded the teaching of English literature at Oxford, King’s College in London and Owens College in Manchester. English Collins John Churton Eagleton Terry Literary Theory English literature humanism and study of English...

... by Roscoe and Principal J. G. Greenwood, the move to Oxford Road in 1873 with buildings designed by Alfred Waterhouse (where the University of Manchester remains today), and the creation of chairs in engineering and economics, all of which transformed Owens College. The appointment of Osborne Reynolds...

... of Toasted Cheese by Beatrix Potter, 1899. 59 4.2 Photograph of Kekulé s circle, Heidelberg, September 1857. 65 4.3 Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen and Harry Roscoe. 80 5.1 James Joule by Lucy Roscoe, ca. 1876. 95 5.2 The original premises of Owens College in Quay Street, Manchester. 101 6.1 New...

... for Manchester. The chapter further notes that Owens College was founded by men of religious conviction and it made provisions for religious education, residential hostels were set up, and some students came from a distance, perhaps largely for the sake of medical training. It then states that Hicks's log book...