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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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On his return to Cambridge, Horace started to design scientific instruments for the University, and in 1881, he founded the ‘Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company’ in partnership with his friend Albert Dew-Smith. Their premises were first in Panton Street, then in St Tibbs Row in 1882. In 1891 Horace took sole control of the company. As a result ...
Horace married Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer, daughter of Lord Farrer, in 1880. She was a distant relative on his mother’s side and her family were not impressed with this match, as they considered Horace to have both poor health and poor prospects. Despite this foreboding, they had a very happy, successful marriage. Horace and Ida had three children: ...
Apart from his membership of various local and University boards and committees, Horace was also an alderman and a J.P. in Cambridge. He served as Mayor of the city from 1896 – 1897. This was a time when most social activity revolved around the small and exclusive set formed by members of the University and their families - the town was not conside...
Biography. 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. He was tutored at home, and after gaining his BA degree at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1874 (with the accolade of ...
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.
- John Hayman, Gonzalo Álvarez, Francisco C Ceballos, Tim M. Berra, Tim M. Berra
- 2017
Video resources. Letters data indexes. Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s working papers (there are details of around 15,000 ...
It was here that Darwin developed his theory of evolution by natural selection and wrote his ground breaking work ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859). This photograph of Darwin’s son,...
