Dinosaur man’s descendants to attend London tribute

Monday 19th July 2004, 12:00AM BST.

A LOCAL family who are direct descendants of Sir Richard Owen, founder of the Natural History Museum, have been invited to the museum for a photocall to celebrate what would have been his 200th birthday.

Peregrine Stone, of St Martin, is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Sir Richard.

Peregrine, his wife Karen, and their children Theodore (8) and Anastacia (6) have travelled to London and are today taking part in a photocall which will be attended by national and local papers.

The Stones will also be taken on a tour behind the scenes of the palaeontology department and a tour of Sir Richard’s library which contains his books and some of the bones and fossils he worked on.

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