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Ellen Wordsworth Darwin (née Crofts; 13 January 1856 – 28 August 1903) was an academic, a fellow and lecturer in English Literature at Newnham College in Cambridge (1879–1883), a member of the private and scholarly Ladies Dining Society at Cambridge and the second wife of the botanist Sir Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin.
- 28 August 1903 (aged 47)
- Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, 13 January 1856, Leeds, England
- Academic, lecturer
- Frances Cornford
Biography. Frances Crofts was born in Cambridge on 30 March 1886, the only child of Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925) and his second wife, Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856–1903), daughter of John Crofts, of Leeds. Ellen was a lecturer in English at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856–1903), and born into the Darwin—Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Her older half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin.
20 nov 2020 · Subscribers to the Cambridge Ethical Society, founded in 1888, included academic and agnostic Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, historian Alice Gardner, and pioneering Welsh teacher Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, who was the first woman at the University of Cambridge to achieve first class honours in Moral Sciences (many decades before women ...
28 nov 2021 · Portrait by Ellen Sharples, 1816. Darwin grew up in the Golden Age of the great nature-poets — the days of Wordsworth’s proclamation that “poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge… impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science” — and so the boy’s passion for the science of nature came ...
Ellen Wordsworth Crofts Darwin. Birth. 13 Jan 1856. Leeds, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Death. 28 Aug 1903 (aged 47) Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Burial. St Andrew Churchyard. Girton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map. Memorial ID. 102809823. · View Source.
Ellen Wordsworth Darwin (* 13. Januar 1856 in Leeds, Vereinigtes Königreich; † 28. August 1903 in Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich) war eine britische Stipendiatin und Dozentin für Englische Literatur am Newnham College in Cambridge und die zweite Frau des Botanikers Sir Francis Darwin.
