Manchester, Owen's College c.1876
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The Manchester merchant John Owen, who died on 29 July 1846, made a fortune by hard work and honest dealing. After making sure that his relatives (he was a bachelor) were well provided for, he left the amazing sum of £100,000 in his will to form a college, where all faiths and denominations would be admitted. He believed very strongly in a full education for all religions. At first the college was on Quay Street, in central Manchester, but it soon outgrew the building. This is when the college we see in the photograph was planned. The architect of the college was Alfred Waterhouse, who planned so many of Manchester's fine buildings. The building on Oxford Road was finished and opened to students on 7 October 1837, so it had been open only three years when this photograph of the Inner Quadrangle was taken. The opening ceremony was performed by the Duke of Devonshire.
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