ABSTRACT
Robert Owen died on 17 November 1858, at the age of 87, and was buried next to his parents in the old churchyard at Newtown. Apart from one visit, he had spent three-quarters of a century away from the land of his birth. We have it on the authority of G.J.Holyoake, one of his most devoted disciples, that
when he came to the border line which separates England and Wales, he knew it again. It was more than seventy years since he passed over it. He raised himself up in his carriage, and gave a cheer. He was in his own native land once more. It was the last cheer the old man ever gave.
