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Robert Owen, detail of a watercolour by Auguste Hervieu, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
During Robert Owenâs management, there were 2,000 inhabitants living at New Lanark. Of this population, 500 were young children who had been brought from poorhouses and charities in Glasgow and Edinburgh.1