Owen
ROBERT, an English social Montgomeryshire, Wales, March 14, 1771. He early turned his attention to social questions, publishing in 1813 "New Views of Society; or, Essays upon pers. the Formation of the Human Character, and Book of the New Moral World." He attempted to found communist societies in England, also in New Harmony, Ind., and later in Mexico. In his later years he became a believer in Spiritualism. His followers bore the name of Owenites, and were among the founders of the English Chartist movement. He died Nov. 19, 1858.