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Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood, 3 January 1765 – 15 July 1817) was the wife of Robert Darwin, a wealthy doctor, and mother of naturalist Charles Darwin, and part of the Wedgwood pottery family.
Charles Darwin. Emma Darwin ( née Wedgwood) 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.
Death of Susannah Darwin. Darwin's mother, Susannah, died when he was eight years old. He said later he could remember 'hardly anything about her except her death-bed, her black velvet gown, and her curiously constructed work-table' ( Autobiography ). 15 July 1817.
© AMNH Special Collections. Charles Darwin's mother, Susannah, was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of England's world-renowned Wedgwood pottery. Still widely admired today, Wedgwood pottery was a technical marvel in the 1700s, and Wedgwood's factory was a leading example of Britain's dawning Industrial Revolution.
25 feb 2023 · by Theresa Feb 25, 2023. Susannah Darwin was not just a mere footnote in history as the wife of Robert Darwin and mother of Charles Darwin. She was a woman of substance who played a vital role in shaping the life of one of the most influential naturalists of all time. Born on 3rd January 1765, Susannah, who came from a wealthy family ...
21 feb 2017 · As well as being a diagnosis that accounts for the symptoms of Darwin’s lifetime illness, the same pathological mitochondrial mutation would explain the strange illnesses of Darwin’s elder brother, Erasmus (1804–1881), their mother Susannah (1765–1817) and her younger brother Tom Wedgwood (1771–1805; Fig. 1 ).
10 feb 2024 · Susannah Darwin, née Wedgwood, is the mother of renowned naturalist Charles Darwin and daughter of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood. She is often silenced, anonymized, and referred to only as ‘Darwin’s mother’.
