Joseph Parslow
Joseph Parslow (22 March 1812 – 4 October 1898) was an English
Darwin's illness
.
Parslow was born in
Upper Gower Street. In 1842 the family moved to Down House in Downe
, Kent, and Parslow moved with the family.
Parslow married Eliza Richards, a maid of Emma's, at St George Hanover Square, London on 20 May 1845. They had two sons; the elder Arthur Parslow who became a carpenter and married Mary Anne Westwood, another member of the Darwin household who was Darwin's grandson's Bernard Darwin's wet nurse. The younger son Ernest died in 1856 of smallpox.
Darwin enjoyed playing
billiards
with Parslow. Parslow retired in 1875, being succeeded by another servant William Jackson. On Darwin's death in 1882, he and Jackson attended the funeral.
He is buried in Downe churchyard, along with members of the Darwin family.
References
- Various biographies of Charles Darwin
- Joseph Parslow; Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge
- http://twojays.info/page3.htm Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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