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Sir Horace Darwin nel 1897. Sir Horace Darwin ( Downe, 13 maggio 1851 – Cambridge, 22 settembre 1928) è stato un ingegnere inglese. Figlio di Emma e Charles Darwin .
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS (13 May 1851 – 22 September 1928) was an English engineer specializing in the design and manufacture of precision scientific instruments. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge .
- 22 September 1928 (aged 77)
- Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer
- 13 May 1851, Downe, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) was a noted pottery businessman and a friend of Erasmus Darwin. During 1780, on the death of his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley, Josiah asked Darwin for help in managing the business. As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, one of Josiah's daughters later married Erasmus's son Robert. One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, also married a Wedgwood – Emma Wedgwood, Josiah's granddaughter. R...
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) was a physician, botanist and poet from Lichfield, whose lengthy botanical poems gave insights into medicine and natural history, and described an evolutionist theory that anticipated both Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his grandson Charles. He married twice, first during 1757 to Mary Howard (1740–1770), who died from alcohol-induced liver failureaged 31. She gave birth to: 1. Charles Darwin (1758–1778) (not Charles Robert Darwin) 2. Erasmus Darwin the Younger (1759–1799...
Samuel "John" Galton
Samuel "John" GaltonFRS (1753–1832) was an arms manufacturer from Birmingham. He married Lucy Barclay (1757–1817), daughter of Robert Barclay Allardice, MP, 5th of Urie. They had the eight children: 1. Mary Anne Galton(1778–1856), married Lambert Schimmelpenninck in 1806 2. Sophia Galton (1782–1863) married Charles Brewin in 1833 3. Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844) (whose son Francis Galtonwas also notable). 4. Theodore Galton (1784–1810) 5. Adele Galton (1784–1869) married John Kaye Booth,...
Robert Darwin
The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, whose own income as a physician, together with astute investment of his wife's inherited wealth, enabled him to fund his son Charles Darwin's place on the Voyage of the Beagle and then gave him the private income needed to support Charles' chosen vocation in natural history that led to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution. He married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood (see above), and they had...
Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood (1769–1843) was the son of the first Josiah Wedgwood, sometime resident of Dorset (where he served as High Sheriff and later Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent. He married Elizabeth Allen (1764–1846) and they had nine children: 1. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (1793–1880). 2. Josiah Wedgwood (1795–1880) married Caroline Darwin, daughter of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. They are grandparents of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. 3. Mary Ann Wedgwood (1796–1798). 4. Charlot...
Thomas Wedgwood
Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805). Pioneer in developing photography, friend and patron of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the pet. Son of Josiah Wedgwood.
Charles Darwin
The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. He married Emma Wedgwood (1808–1896), a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II and Elizabeth Allen. Charles's mother, Susannah, was a sister to Emma's father, Josiah II. Thus, Charles and Emma were first cousins. Charles' sister Caroline married Emma's brother, Josia...
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an astronomer and mathematician. He married Martha (Maud) du Puy of Philadelphia. They had five children: 1. Charles Galton Darwin (see below). 2. William Robert Darwin(married Sarah Monica Slingsby). 3. Gwendoline "Gwen" Darwin, artist; (see below). 4. Leonard Darwin 1899. 5. Margaret Elizabeth Darwin (married Sir Geoffrey Keynes, bibliophile) (see below).
Francis Darwin
Francis Darwin (1848–1925) was the botanist son of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood). Francis Darwin married Amy Ruck during 1874, who died during 1876 after the birth of their son Bernard Darwin, an author on golf – see below. Francis married Ellen Crofts during September 1883 and they had a daughter Frances Crofts, who married and became known as the poet Frances Cornford (see below). During 1913 he married his third wife Florence Henrietta Darwin (née Fisher); there were no chi...
Leonard Darwin
Leonard Darwin (1850–1943) was variously an army officer, Member of Parliament and eugenicist who corresponded with Ronald Fisher, thus being the link between the two great evolutionary biologists.
Charles Galton Darwin
Charles Galton Darwin 1887–1962 was the son of George Howard Darwin (see above) and was a noted physicist of the age, and Director of the National Physics Laboratory. His son George Pember Darwin (1928–2001) married Angela Huxley, great-granddaughter of Thomas Huxley.
Gwen Raverat
Gwen Raverat (1885–1957) was the daughter of George Howard Darwin and was an artist. She married the French artist Jacques Raverat during 1911 and had daughters Elizabeth Hambro and Sophie Pryor, later Gurney. Her childhood memoir, Period Piece, contains illustrations of and anecdotes about many of the Darwin—Wedgwood clan.
Margaret Keynes
Margaret Keynes (1890–1974) was the daughter of George Howard Darwin, (see above). She married Geoffrey Keynes, brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes (see Keynes family) and had sons Richard Keynes, Quentin Keynes, Milo Keynes and Stephen Keynes, and a daughter Harriet Frances.Date of birth 22 March 1890.She was the third child, her other siblings are:1. Gwendolen Mary 27 Aug 1885.2. Charles Galton 9 Dec 1887.3. William Robert 22 August 1894.
Erasmus Darwin Barlow
Erasmus Darwin Barlow(1915–2005) was a psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Son of Nora Barlow.
Horace Barlow
Horace Barlow(1921–2020) was Professor of Physiological Optics and Physiology, Berkeley, California, US (1964–73); Royal Society Research Professor, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge (1973–87).
John Cornford
John Cornford (1915–1936), was a poet and member of the International Brigades died during the Spanish Civil War. Son of Francis and Frances Cornford, see above.
Martin Thomas Barlow
Martin T. Barlow(born 1953) is a mathematician; son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow.
Phyllida Barlow
Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023) was a sculptor and art academic; daughter of Erasmus Darwin Barlow.
Matthew Chapman
Matthew Chapman(born 1950), screenwriter, author, grandson of Frances Cornford, see above.
Ralph Wedgwood
Ralph Wedgwood (born 1964), philosopher, great-grandson of Ralph L. Wedgwood.
Anna Raverat
Anna Raverat(born 1969), author, daughter of Lucy Rawlinson.
Francis Hoar
Francis Hoar (born 1977), barrister (including in Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor and the judicial review brought by Simon Dolanagainst the UK government's 'lockdown' regulations). Son of Jacqueline (nee Tindal) and grandson of Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley, nephew of Anthony Tindal.
There was a notable history of intermarriage within the family. During the period being discussed, Josiah Wedgwood married his third cousin Sarah Wedgwood; Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood; his sister, Caroline Darwin, married Emma's brother (and Caroline's first cousin), Josiah Wedgwood III. There were other instances of cousi...
These arms were granted to Reginald Darwin, of Fern, Derbyshire, for himself and certain descendants of his father, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, and his uncle Robert Waring Darwin (Father of Charles), on 6 March 1890. As Charles Darwin was part of the destination, they have been used in association with him, despite being granted after his death....
The Company was responsible for the manufacture of many commercial scientific instruments including, ‘Prof J. A. Ewing’s Seismograph’ in 1891, and in 1910 ‘Darwin’s crack extensometers for St Paul’s Cathedral’. Horace Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903.
Sir Horace Darwin (1851-1928), knight, civil engineer and founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, was born at Downe, Kent, on 13 May 1851, the ninth child of Charles Robert Darwin and his wife, Emma.
Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s working papers (there are details of around 15,000 on this site) and were one of the most important means by which he gathered data and discussed ideas.
21 feb 2017 · Darwin may also have contributed to the sicknesses in another way, by acting as a ‘role model’ for the possible psychosomatic illnesses of Henrietta and perhaps also of Horace. The study of the Darwin’s illnesses shows the value of family history in the diagnosis of chronic disorders.
