Horace Darwin
Ruth Frances Darwin Nora Barlow | |
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Parent(s) | Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin |
Sir Horace Darwin,
Personal life and education
Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, and the youngest of their seven children who survived to adulthood.
He was educated at a private school in Woodbridge, Suffolk, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1874.[2]
In January 1880 Darwin and Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer married. She was the daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer and was styled Lady Ida Darwin after her marriage. They had one son and two daughters:
- First World War.[3]
- Ruth Frances Darwin (1883–1972), married Dr. William Rees-Thomas, was a notable advocate of eugenics.
- Emma Nora Darwin (1885–1989) plant geneticist, edited the 1959 edition of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and married the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow.
He is buried at the
His family home, "the Orchard", in Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, is now the site of Murray Edwards College.
Career
In 1881 he co-founded the
References
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- ^ "Darwin, Horace (DRWN868H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ CWGC :: Casualty Details at www.cwgc.org
- ^ Obituary: Sir Horace Darwin, K.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 122, 580–581 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122580a0
- ISBN 978-1442641518. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Albert George Dew-Smith". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 14 January 2022.