query: who was charles darwin married to?

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: retained until his retirement during 1873. George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an astronomer and mathematician. He married Martha (Maud) du Puy of Philadelphia. They had five children: 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

title: Emma Darwin

text: Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield, "Aunt Etty". Emma Darwin's sister Elizabeth Wedgwood and Aunt Sarah Wedgwood are also buried together in the St Mary the Virgin churchyard. Emma Darwin Emma Darwin ("née" Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Emma Wedgwood was born at the family estate of Maer Hall in Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of

title: Emma Darwin

text: Emma Darwin Emma Darwin ("née" Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Emma Wedgwood was born at the family estate of Maer Hall in Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth "Bessie" (née Allen). Her grandfather Josiah Wedgwood had made his fortune in pottery, and like many others who were not part of the aristocracy, they were

title: Emma Darwin

text: had little, if any, scientific input. In 2008 "Mrs Charles Darwin's Recipe Book" was published, with profits going to the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University. The 2009 film "Creation" focuses in part on the relationship between Charles and Emma. Emma was played by Jennifer Connelly. Eight members of the Darwin family are buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent; nearby Down House. Darwins buried at Downe include: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell, who taught her husband's cousin Gwen (Darwin) Raverat, engraver and author of Period Piece; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin, "Aunt Bessy"; Emma Darwin,

title: Anne Darwin

text: Randal Keynes discovered a box containing keepsakes of Anne collected by Charles and Emma. He wrote a biography of Charles Darwin centered on the relationship between Darwin and his daughter, entitled "Annie's Box"; the script of the 2009 film "Creation" is based on the book. Anne Darwin Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin. According to biographers, she was a delightful child who brought much happiness to her parents. Eminent Darwin scholar E. Janet Browne writes of her: In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever

title: Health of Charles Darwin

text: controversial, particularly when based only on writings. Peter Brent writes in his biography of Darwin, "Darwin: A Man of Enlarged Curiosity", that Charles and Emma Darwin's "ties to each other were linked to childhood and the very beginnings of memory. They had a common history, a joint tradition. It is hard to think their relationship a passionate one, but it was happy, and the happiness had deep roots." Bradbury—himself a social psychologist—draws on this biography to argue that in Darwin's letters, Emma was "always the mother, never the child, Darwin always the child, never the father." Darwin gave his wife

title: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

text: Charles Darwin" in 1958 by Charles's granddaughter (and Francis's niece) Nora Barlow. The book was the first real biography of Charles Darwin, excepting obituaries, and thus the foundation of the Darwin Industry. Further volumes of letters followed - "More Letters of Charles Darwin" in 1903. Charles's wife Emma Darwin's correspondence was published by Charles and Emma's daughter (Frank's sister) Henrietta Litchfield in 1905/1915 as "". The book received extensive reviews in "The Times" and "The Manchester Guardian" The book was later described by "The Times" as "one of the best biographies ever written" and "In the selection and arrangement of

title: Anne Darwin

text: Anne Darwin Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin. According to biographers, she was a delightful child who brought much happiness to her parents. Eminent Darwin scholar E. Janet Browne writes of her: In 1849, Anne caught scarlet fever along with her two sisters, and her health thereafter declined; some authorities believe that she suffered from tuberculosis. In vain pursuit of help from Gully's water cure, Charles Darwin took his daughter to the Worcestershire spa town, Great Malvern. She died in Montreal House on

title: Charles Galton Darwin

text: Charles Galton Darwin Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS (18 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was a son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. Darwin was born at Newnham Grange in Cambridge, England into a scientific dynasty. He was a son of mathematician Sir George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. His mother was Lady Darwin, Maud du Puy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Darwin's elder sister was the artist Gwen Raverat,

title: Charles Darwin (medical student)

text: at some distant time be given to the public". The only one discovered was Charles Darwin's unpublished manuscript on the pulse, which was found in the Medical Society of London. Charles Darwin's younger brother Erasmus Darwin II became a rich solicitor, but in 1799 drowned himself in the River Derwent. The youngest of Erasmus Darwin's three sons, Robert Waring Darwin, followed his father and oldest brother into medicine, becoming a successful physician. He married Susannah Wedgwood, and in the family tradition they named their first boy after his grandfather and uncle, Erasmus Alvey Darwin. When their second boy was born

title: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

text: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin wrote the text, which he entitled "Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character", for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876 and had finished it by August 3. The text was published in 1887 (five years after Darwin's death) by John Murray as part of "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter". The text printed in "Life and Letters" was edited by Darwin's son Francis Darwin, who

title: Robin Darwin

text: Robin Darwin Sir Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin KCB CBE RA RSA PRWA NEAC (7 May 1910 – 30 January 1974) was a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art. He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. One of his sisters was the potter Ursula Mommens. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1931 he married Yvonne Darby (1900?-1985) who was also an artist. After their divorce, he later married Ginette Hewitt (died 2006), who had been previously married to Lt-Col Kenneth Morton-Evans, OBE, TD

title: Charles Darwin Foundation

text: Charles Darwin Foundation The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands was founded in 1959, almost 60 years ago, under the auspices of UNESCO (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1) and the World Conservation Union. The Charles Darwin Research Station www.darwinfoundation.org is the headquarters for The Foundation, in the Galapagos archipelago. The mission of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, and its Research Station is to provide knowledge and assistance through scientific research and complementary actions to ensure the conservation of the environment and biodiversity in the Galapagos Archipelago. The Charles Darwin Foundation is based in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Ecuador.

title: Charles Darwin

text: Society. The ornithologist John Gould soon announced that the Galapagos birds that Darwin had thought a mixture of blackbirds, "gros-beaks" and finches, were, in fact, twelve separate species of finches. On 17 February, Darwin was elected to the Council of the Geological Society, and Lyell's presidential address presented Owen's findings on Darwin's fossils, stressing geographical continuity of species as supporting his uniformitarian ideas. Early in March, Darwin moved to London to be near this work, joining Lyell's social circle of scientists and experts such as Charles Babbage, who described God as a programmer of laws. Darwin stayed with his freethinking

title: RRS Charles Darwin

text: RRS Charles Darwin The RRS "Charles Darwin was a Royal Research Ship belonging to the British Natural Environment Research Council. Since 2006, she has been the geophysical survey vessel, RV "Ocean Researcher, RRS "Charles Darwin" was built in 1985 by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon. Named after the eminent English naturalist, she was used primarily for research in oceanography, geology, and geophysics. After 21 years of service, "Charles Darwin" was retired in June 2006, and replaced by the . Purchased by Gardline Marine Sciences Limited of Great Yarmouth, she was renamed RV "Ocean Researcher", and now conducts geophysical surveys. RRS "Charles

title: Charles Waring Darwin (soldier)

text: Charles Waring Darwin (soldier) Colonel Charles Waring Darwin, CB, DL JP (28 August 1855 – 1 August 1928) was a British soldier and landowner. Darwin was the son of Francis Darwin JP DL (né Rhodes) of Elston Hall; his mother Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin (1827-1885) was the daughter of William Brown Darwin of Elston (1774-1841). He was a second cousin once removed of the naturalist Charles Darwin, their shared ancestors (CWD's great-great-grandparents, CRD's great-grandparents), being Robert Darwin of Elston and his wife Elizabeth (née Hill). His father had changed the family name from Rhodes (of Creskeld Hall) to Darwin (of

title: Charles Darwin (medical student)

text: they named him after his uncle and father, both medical men, Charles Robert Darwin. While he was a child they called him "Bobby", but he became known simply as Charles Darwin, eclipsing the memory of the short life of his uncle of that name. Charles Darwin (medical student) Charles Darwin (3 September 1758 – 15 May 1778) was the oldest son of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and Mary Howard (1740–70), and was the uncle of the famous naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (though dying before his nephew's birth). He showed considerable promise while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but died

title: Charles Darwin University

text: can also be heard in Batchelor, Katherine / Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River. Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with about 22,083 students as of 2011. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University (NTU) of Darwin with the Menzies School of Health Research and Centralian College of Alice Springs, and it was named after Charles Darwin, the celebrated English naturalist. It is a member of the group of seven Innovative Research Universities in Australia. CDU has campuses in the Darwin suburb of Casuarina, the city of Palmerston,

title: Charles Darwin University

text: Charles Darwin University Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with about 22,083 students as of 2011. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University (NTU) of Darwin with the Menzies School of Health Research and Centralian College of Alice Springs, and it was named after Charles Darwin, the celebrated English naturalist. It is a member of the group of seven Innovative Research Universities in Australia. CDU has campuses in the Darwin suburb of Casuarina, the city of Palmerston, and the towns of Alice Springs, Katherine and Nhulunbuy, with smaller training centres in Jabiru,

title: Charles Darwin

text: and an excited Darwin went round the London institutions being fêted and seeking experts to describe the collections. Zoologists had a huge backlog of work, and there was a danger of specimens just being left in storage. Charles Lyell eagerly met Darwin for the first time on 29 October and soon introduced him to the up-and-coming anatomist Richard Owen, who had the facilities of the Royal College of Surgeons to work on the fossil bones collected by Darwin. Owen's surprising results included other gigantic extinct ground sloths as well as the "Megatherium", a near complete skeleton of the unknown "Scelidotherium"

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: cousins. The Darwins had ten children, three of whom died before reaching maturity. The Rev. William Darwin Fox (1805–1880) was a second cousin of Charles Darwin and an amateur entomologist, naturalist and palaeontologist. Fox became a lifelong friend of Charles Darwin after their first meeting at Christ's College, Cambridge. He married Harriet Fletcher, who gave him five children, and after her death married Ellen Sophia Woodd, who provided the remainder of his 17 children. After his graduation from Cambridge during 1829, Fox was appointed as the Vicar of Osmaston and during 1838 became the Rector of Delamere, a living he

title: RRS Charles Darwin

text: Darwin" carried out 180 research cruises, worldwide, in her 21 years as a Natural Environment Research Council ship. The first cruise, in 1985, in the Northeast Atlantic, was led by Professor John Gould. Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, studying climate change, have used RRS "Charles Darwin" to investigate the slowing of the Gulf Stream. Her final cruise was a geophysical survey for the British Geological Survey. RRS Charles Darwin The RRS "Charles Darwin was a Royal Research Ship belonging to the British Natural Environment Research Council. Since 2006, she has been the geophysical survey vessel, RV "Ocean Researcher,

title: Charles Darwin (RAF officer)

text: Charles Darwin (RAF officer) Squadron Leader Charles John Wharton Darwin DSO RAF (12 December 1894 - 26 December 1941) was a First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Darwin was the son of Col. Charles Waring Darwin CB DL JP (1855–1928) of Elston Hall (a second cousin once removed of the famous naturalist Charles Darwin) and his wife Mary Dorothea (née Wharton), the only daughter of the Rt Hon. John Lloyd Wharton MP. He was educated at Winchester School, and the RMC Sandhurst. Darwin served in France with the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards from 1914

title: More Letters of Charles Darwin

text: More Letters of Charles Darwin More Letters of Charles Darwin, a sequel to "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" of 1887, was a book in two volumes, published in 1903, edited by Francis Darwin and A. C. Seward, containing as the title implies, additional publications of 782 letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin. "The Times" noted that "the two volumes of "More Letters of Charles Darwin" form a fitting supplement to "The Life and Letters"", which it had in turn described as "one of the best biographies ever written". In the Darwin letters trilogy it was followed by

title: More Letters of Charles Darwin

title: Commemoration of Charles Darwin

text: that name in 1947, fostering inaccurate legends about their significance to his work. Genera Species Numerous species are named "darwinii" or "darwini". Examples include: Other honorary epithets include "Ingerana charlesdarwini", an endangered frog of Southeast Asia Darwin in Australia features Charles Darwin University and Charles Darwin National Park. However, Darwin College, Cambridge, founded in 1964, was named in honour of the Darwin family, in part because they owned some of the site. The Linnean Society of London has commemorated Darwin's achievements by the award of the Darwin-Wallace Medal since 1908. In the Galápagos Islands, the Charles Darwin Foundation based at

title: Charles Darwin (medical student)

text: Charles Darwin (medical student) Charles Darwin (3 September 1758 – 15 May 1778) was the oldest son of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and Mary Howard (1740–70), and was the uncle of the famous naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (though dying before his nephew's birth). He showed considerable promise while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but died while still a student. A memoir by his father recalled young Charles Darwin as having a precocious interest in science, from infancy being: Like his father, he suffered from a stammer as a child. In an attempt to cure this by learning the French

title: Charles Darwin bibliography

text: of Charles Darwin", edited by Paul H Barrett and Richard Broke Freeman. New York University Press, 1987–89. 29 vols. LC Charles Darwin bibliography This is a partial list of the writings of Charles Darwin, including his main works. All of his writings are available at The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online: the Table of Contents provides a complete bibliography of his works, including alternative editions, contributions to books & periodicals, correspondence, life, and a complete catalogue of his manuscripts. This is free to read, but not public domain, and includes work still under copyright. For public-domain plain text unauthoritative

title: Charles Darwin Reserve

text: and western corellas, as well as several other species restricted to either the arid or mallee biomes. Charles Darwin Reserve Charles Darwin Reserve is a nature reserve in Western Australia. It is 90 km from Wubin and 355 km north of Perth. It lies within the South West Botanical Province on the northern edge of the Wheatbelt, and is owned and managed by Bush Heritage Australia (BHA), by which it was purchased and renamed in 2003. The purchase of the reserve was partly funded by a donation by Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Chris Darwin. The reserve occupies an area of and

title: Charles Darwin University

text: health of the university, some controversial, such as the proposal to merge with Centralian College with a new name for the university. On 21 August 2003, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly passed the Charles Darwin University Act 2003 (NT), merging Alice Springs' Centralian College and the Menzies School of Health Research with the Northern Territory University to form Charles Darwin University from 1 January 2004. The inaugural university council meeting was held on 26 November 2003. Charles Darwin University is a dual-sector university, which means the university offers Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses and higher education undergraduate and postgraduate

title: The Voyage of Charles Darwin

text: The Voyage of Charles Darwin The Voyage of Charles Darwin was a 1978 BBC television serial depicting the life of Charles Darwin, focusing largely on his voyage on . The series encompasses his university days to the 1859 publication of his book "On the Origin of Species" and his death and is loosely based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, especially "The Voyage of the Beagle" and "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin". It starred Malcolm Stoddard as Darwin and Andrew Burt as Captain Robert FitzRoy. The barque was refitted to depict HMS "Beagle". The series was repeated in December

title: Charles Darwin Reserve

text: Charles Darwin Reserve Charles Darwin Reserve is a nature reserve in Western Australia. It is 90 km from Wubin and 355 km north of Perth. It lies within the South West Botanical Province on the northern edge of the Wheatbelt, and is owned and managed by Bush Heritage Australia (BHA), by which it was purchased and renamed in 2003. The purchase of the reserve was partly funded by a donation by Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Chris Darwin. The reserve occupies an area of and was formerly part of the pastoral lease, Whitewells Station. The reserve has a semi-arid Mediterranean climate with

title: Correspondence of Charles Darwin

text: Charles Darwin" in three volumes, to accompany the publication of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin". This was later followed by two volumes of "More Letters of Charles Darwin" published in 1902. In 1974 the Darwin Correspondence Project was founded at Cambridge University by Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith. Cambridge University owns 9,000 letters and has obtained copies of another 6,000 held in private collections. New letters are being discovered at around 60 per year and photocopies of new finds should be sent to the project, which will eventually publish them. Volumes of the correspondence appear at regular

title: Charles Waring Darwin (soldier)

text: In 1911 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He died in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1928, where forces were stationed as part of the British Army of the Rhine, his funeral was held there. His estate was valued at £55,983. Charles Waring Darwin (soldier) Colonel Charles Waring Darwin, CB, DL JP (28 August 1855 – 1 August 1928) was a British soldier and landowner. Darwin was the son of Francis Darwin JP DL (né Rhodes) of Elston Hall; his mother Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin (1827-1885) was the daughter of William Brown Darwin of Elston (1774-1841).

title: Charles Darwin Foundation

text: of them have something in common: they are led by a committed team of scientists and supported by resourceful administrative staff. Many fieldwork conditions are extreme and include intense heat, tricky boat disembarkations or treks through thorny blackberry thickets. Our incredible team at the Charles Darwin Research Station is passionate about the work it does and is willing to work as hard as it takes to ensure Galapagos is preserved conserved for future generations. https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/research Charles Darwin Foundation The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands was founded in 1959, almost 60 years ago, under the auspices of UNESCO (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1)

title: Commemoration of Charles Darwin

text: 2009, joining a short list of film dramas about Darwin, including "The Darwin Adventure", released in 1972. Commemoration of Charles Darwin Commemoration of Charles Darwin began with geographical features named after Darwin while he was still on the "Beagle" survey voyage, continued after his return with the naming of species he had collected, and extended further with his increasing fame. Many geographical features, species and institutions bear his name. Interest in his work has led to scholarship and publications, nicknamed the "Darwin Industry", and his life is remembered in fiction, film and TV productions as well as in numerous biographies.

title: Charles Darwin

text: research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms" (1881), he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin ("née" Wedgwood). He was the grandson of

title: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

text: removed several passages about Darwin's critical views of God and Christianity. The omitted passages were later restored by Darwin's granddaughter Nora Barlow in a 1958 edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species". This edition was published in London by Collins under the title of "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his granddaughter Nora Barlow". The Autobiography of Charles Darwin The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography by the English naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin wrote the text, which he entitled "Recollections

title: Henry Darwin

text: Henry Darwin Henry Galton Darwin (6 November 1929 – 17 September 1992) was a British lawyer and diplomat specialising in international law. Darwin born in Edinburgh, the second son (of four) and third child (of five) of the physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin and his wife Katharine Pember, a mathematician. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1958 he married Jane Christie, an English teacher; they had three daughters: Darwin was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953. He served as assistant Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office 1954-1960 and again 1963-1967, at which time

title: Charles Darwin Foundation

text: The Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) is a biological research station operated by the Charles Darwin Foundation. It is located on the shore of Academy Bay in the village of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, with satellite offices on Isabela and San Cristóbal islands. In Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Ecuadorian and foreign scientists work on research and projects for conservation of the Galápagos terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The Research Station, opened in 1964, and visitors can go to their Charles Darwin Exhibition Hall open to the public (free entry). Opens Monday to Sunday including

title: Commemoration of Charles Darwin

text: Commemoration of Charles Darwin Commemoration of Charles Darwin began with geographical features named after Darwin while he was still on the "Beagle" survey voyage, continued after his return with the naming of species he had collected, and extended further with his increasing fame. Many geographical features, species and institutions bear his name. Interest in his work has led to scholarship and publications, nicknamed the "Darwin Industry", and his life is remembered in fiction, film and TV productions as well as in numerous biographies. Darwin Day has become an annual event, and in 2009 there were worldwide celebrations to mark the

title: Charles Darwin bibliography

text: Charles Darwin bibliography This is a partial list of the writings of Charles Darwin, including his main works. All of his writings are available at The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online: the Table of Contents provides a complete bibliography of his works, including alternative editions, contributions to books & periodicals, correspondence, life, and a complete catalogue of his manuscripts. This is free to read, but not public domain, and includes work still under copyright. For public-domain plain text unauthoritative versions of his major works, see . There is a collected printed edition, the standard for scholarly use: "The Works

title: Portraits of Charles Darwin

text: Portraits of Charles Darwin There are many known portraits of Charles Darwin. Darwin came from a wealthy family and became a well-known naturalist and author, and portraits were made of him in childhood, adulthood and old age. Darwin's life (1809–1882) spanned the development of photography, and early portraits of Darwin are drawn or painted, while many later portraits are monochrome photographs. After the publication and dissemination of the controversial "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, Darwin was also the subject of numerous caricatures. Darwin's visage, particularly his iconic beard, continues to be culturally significant and widely recognisable into the

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: was knighted by George IV. On 16 December 1815 he married Jane Harriet Ryle (11 December 1794 – 19 April 1866) at St. George, Hanover Square London. They had many children including: 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

title: Maud Darwin

text: twice the marriage proposals of Henry Martyn Taylor. However, while travelling in Italy, she met up with George Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and who had commenced his travels independently, although he was a member of her social circle and they became engaged there. She married Darwin, in 1884 in Erie, Pennsylvania in an article lavishly described by "The New York Times". The Jebbs were able to join them. In 1885 they bought Newnham Grange in Cambridge. They had five children: She became Lady Darwin on her husband's knighthood in 1905; she was widowed in 1912. She died

title: Charles Darwin

text: to geneticists seeing this as impractical pseudoscience. A shift from voluntary arrangements to "negative" eugenics included compulsory sterilisation laws in the United States, copied by Nazi Germany as the basis for Nazi eugenics based on virulent racism and "racial hygiene".() Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, (; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. In a joint publication with

title: Commemoration of Charles Darwin

text: the Charles Darwin Research Station does research and conservation. To mark 2009 they are helping to reintroduce to Floreana Island (Charles Island) the specific mockingbird which first alerted Darwin to species being unique to islands. It was eradicated from the main island by European species, mainly rats and goats, but survived on two small islands nearby. Darwin came fourth in the "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. In 2000 Darwin's image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens. His impressive, luxuriant beard (which was reportedly difficult to

title: Charles Darwin

text: Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, (; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective

title: Charles Darwin

text: Anglican Shrewsbury School as a boarder. Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before going to the University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus in October 1825. Darwin found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so he neglected his studies. He learned taxidermy in around 40 daily hour-long sessions from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South American rainforest. In Darwin's second year at the university he joined the Plinian Society,

title: Charles Darwin Foundation

text: Station has a team of over one hundred scientists, educators, volunteers, research students, and support staff from all over the world. Scientific research and monitoring projects are conducted at the Charles Darwin Research Station in conjunction and cooperation with its main partner, the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS), which functions as the principal government authority in charge of conservation and natural resource management in the Galapagos archipelago. The work of the Charles Darwin Foundation main objectives: The Charles Darwin Research Station has almost 60 years of experience conducting applied scientific research for the conservation of the Galapagos Islands. As official

title: Charles Darwin

text: two prominent abolitionists: Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side. Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. Robert Darwin, himself quietly a freethinker, had baby Charles baptised in November 1809 in the Anglican St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, but Charles and his siblings attended the Unitarian chapel with their mother. The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817. That July, his mother died. From September 1818, he joined his older brother Erasmus attending the nearby

title: Charles Darwin (RAF officer)

text: Capt. (A./Major) Charles John Wharton Darwin. (FRANCE) This officer has proved himself, an exceptionally skilful and gallant patrol leader, conspicuous for utter fearlessness and disregard of danger. On a recent occasion, in company with one other machine, he attacked a formation of fourteen Fokker biplanes, one of which was shot down and crashed. He has accounted for three hostile aircraft. Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 February 1919 (31170/2031) Charles Darwin (RAF officer) Squadron Leader Charles John Wharton Darwin DSO RAF (12 December 1894 - 26 December 1941) was a First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

title: Portraits of Charles Darwin

text: photographs. He turned down an opportunity in 1869 to sit for a portrait with Alfred Russel Wallace, explaining that sitting for photographs "is what I hate doing & wastes a whole day owing to my weak health; and to sit with another person would cause still more trouble & delay." Nevertheless, there are at least 53 known photographs of Darwin, according to Gene Kritsky, a scholar of Darwin photos. Portraits of Charles Darwin There are many known portraits of Charles Darwin. Darwin came from a wealthy family and became a well-known naturalist and author, and portraits were made of him

title: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

text: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin is a book published in 1887 edited by Francis Darwin about his father Charles Darwin. It contains a selection of 87 letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin, an autobiographical chapter written by Charles Darwin for his family, and an essay by Thomas Huxley "On the reception of the 'Origin of Species'". It was published by Darwin's publisher John Murray. The autobiographical chapter was edited by Francis to remove references to his father's views on religion. These were later reinstated and published as "The Autobiography of

title: Charles Darwin

text: of Darwin as a young man is situated in the grounds of Christ's College, Cambridge. Darwin College, a postgraduate college at Cambridge University, is named after the Darwin family. The Darwins had ten children: two died in infancy, and Annie's death at the age of ten had a devastating effect on her parents. Charles was a devoted father and uncommonly attentive to his children. Whenever they fell ill, he feared that they might have inherited weaknesses from inbreeding due to the close family ties he shared with his wife and cousin, Emma Wedgwood. He examined this topic in his writings,

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805). Pioneer in developing photography. Son of Josiah Wedgwood. Samuel Tertius Galton married Frances Anne Violetta Darwin, (1783–1874) daughter of Erasmus Darwin, see above. They had three sons and four daughters including: Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin was the son of Erasmus Darwin and Elizabeth (née Collier), daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. Francis was an accomplished travel writer, explorer and naturalist and bravely studied the ravages of the plague on Smyrna at great personal risk. He was the only one to return of his friends who went to the East. A physician to George III, he

title: Health of Charles Darwin

text: Darwin himself wrote about this, in his autobiographical "Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character" (1876): Health of Charles Darwin For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin's health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time. However, in some ways this may have helped his work, and Charles Darwin wrote "Even ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement." He consulted numerous doctors, but, with the medical science of the time, the cause remained undiagnosed.

title: Charles Darwin

text: are about marine invertebrates, starting with plankton collected in a calm spell. On their first stop ashore at St Jago in Cape Verde, Darwin found that a white band high in the volcanic rock cliffs included seashells. FitzRoy had given him the first volume of Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology", which set out uniformitarian concepts of land slowly rising or falling over immense periods, and Darwin saw things Lyell's way, theorising and thinking of writing a book on geology. When they reached Brazil, Darwin was delighted by the tropical forest, but detested the sight of slavery, and disputed this issue

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: birth to: He then had an extra-marital affair with a Miss Parker, producing two daughters: He then became smitten with Elizabeth Collier Sacheveral-Pole, who was married to Colonel Sacheveral-Pole and was the natural daughter of the Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. Sacheveral-Pole died soon afterwards, and Erasmus married Elizabeth and they bore an additional seven children: Samuel "John" Galton FRS (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: The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury,

title: Charles Darwin University

text: Tennant Creek and Yulara. A new waterfront campus opened in 2015 in the Darwin CBD which contains the business school. The university offers a wide range of higher education degrees and vocational education and training courses with flexible study options, including part-time, external and online. Charles Darwin University has evolved over the years through the merging of several higher education institutions. Darwin Community College, founded in 1974 and renamed Darwin Institute of Technology in 1984, was a combined College of Advanced Education and a TAFE College. It was situated on what is now the Casuarina Campus, although it used other

title: Charles Darwin

text: prophetically remarking "So don't be ill any more my dear Charley till I can be with you to nurse you." He found what they called "Macaw Cottage" (because of its gaudy interiors) in Gower Street, then moved his "museum" in over Christmas. On 24 January 1839, Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). On 29 January, Darwin and Emma Wedgwood were married at Maer in an Anglican ceremony arranged to suit the Unitarians, then immediately caught the train to London and their new home. Darwin now had the framework of his theory of natural selection "by which

title: Darwin Medal

text: or have lived in such a nation for at least three years before the nomination. Since its creation the medal has been awarded over 60 times, the recipients including Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, and two married couples, Jack and Yolande Heslop-Harrison in 1982 and Peter and Rosemary Grant in 2002. The medal was first awarded to Alfred Russel Wallace, a noted biologist and naturalist who had independently developed the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Source: Royal Society Darwin Medal The Darwin Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternate year for "work of acknowledged distinction in the

title: Charles Galton Darwin

text: consist mainly of people with the strongest instinct to reproduce. This would ultimately have dysgenic effects. In later years he travelled widely, an enthusiastic collaborator across national borders and an able communicator of scientific ideas. He died at Newnham Grange in Cambridge (the house where he was born) on New Year's Eve 1962/3; he was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 4 January 1963. He and his late wife are commemorated with a memorial at St Botolph's Church, Cambridge; she was cremated, the funeral was in Wimbledon, where she had been living. Charles Galton Darwin Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC,

title: Charles Darwin Trust

text: 2006), Angela Huxley (resigned 2006) The Science Advisory Council consists of Sir Paul Nurse FRS, Prof. Lord Rees of Ludlow PRS, Dr James Watson KBE ForMemRS, Prof. E.O. Wilson ForMemRS. David Kohn is Senior Research Fellow. Karen Goldie-Morrison is Director. Charles Darwin Trust The Charles Darwin Trust is a British educational charity. The trust was part of a campaign with other organizations to back the bid to make Down House a World Heritage Site. The trust was founded in 1999 by Stephen Keynes. Trustees of the trust are Stephen Keynes OBE FLS (Chairman), Francis Carnwath CBE (Treasurer), Dr Claire Barlow

title: Charles Darwin Trust

text: Charles Darwin Trust The Charles Darwin Trust is a British educational charity. The trust was part of a campaign with other organizations to back the bid to make Down House a World Heritage Site. The trust was founded in 1999 by Stephen Keynes. Trustees of the trust are Stephen Keynes OBE FLS (Chairman), Francis Carnwath CBE (Treasurer), Dr Claire Barlow (appointed 2006), Prof. Sir Patrick Bateson FRS, Sir Matthew Farrer GCVO, Timothy Hornsby CBE, Prof. J. Stephen Jones, Randal Keynes OBE FLS, Prof. Keith Stewart Thomson and Dr Patrick Zutshi. Previous trustees include Janet Browne (resigned 2006), Bernard Bulkin (resigned

title: Commemoration of Charles Darwin

text: BBC Darwin Season. In September 2008, the Church of England issued an article saying that the 200th anniversary of his birth was a fitting time to apologise to Darwin "for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still". Since 2004, Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) in Guatemala, has celebrated Darwin Day with a series of conferences that includes international speakers. To watch the UFM's Darwin Day video collection click here. On 22 January 2013, a resolution was introduced to the United States Congress designating 12 February 2013 (Charles Darwin's 204th birthday) as "Darwin Day"

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: contestant on Dragons Den during 2017. Lucy Rawlinson (née Pryor) (born 1948), painter (as Lucy Raverat), granddaughter of Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), see above. Skandar Keynes (born 1991), actor, played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia (film series), son of Randal Keynes. Paula Darwin (born 1997) Daughter of Robert Darwin. Ralph Wedgwood, philosopher, great-grandson of Ralph L. Wedgwood. Neneh Darwin (born 1991), Australian environment campaigner. 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,

title: Correspondence of Charles Darwin

text: intervals from Cambridge University Press, with the content freely available online after four years. The Darwin Correspondence website also includes extensive additional materials, including resources for using the letters in school and university teaching. Entries marked with asterisks denote persons for which 100 letters or more have been located. All of these letters can be found on the Darwin Correspondence Project website. Selections of letters published by the Correspondence Project include: Correspondence of Charles Darwin The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with numerous other luminaries of his age and members of his family. These have provided many insights about the

title: The Voyage of Charles Darwin

text: 1995. It was broadcast in the US on PBS starting 27 January 1980 and was hosted by Neil Armstrong. It was produced by Christopher Ralling. "The Christian Science Monitor" called the series "a profoundly stimulating mix of entertainment and information". The series won the 1979 BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series and for Best Cinematography. It was nominated for one other BAFTA. It also won Best Documentary Series from the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 1979. The Voyage of Charles Darwin The Voyage of Charles Darwin was a 1978 BBC television serial depicting the life of Charles Darwin, focusing largely

title: The Genius of Charles Darwin

text: The Genius of Charles Darwin The Genius of Charles Darwin is a three-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. It was first shown in August 2008 on Channel 4. It won Best TV Documentary Series 2008 at the British Broadcast Awards in January 2009. In the first episode Richard Dawkins explains the basic mechanisms of natural selection, and tells the story of how Charles Darwin developed his theory. He teaches a year 11 science class about evolution, which many of the students are reluctant to accept. He then takes them to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset

title: Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge

text: the U.S. involvement in Cambodia and Laos) recorded on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; those names belong to the 18 Americans killed in the Mayaguez Incident. Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge Charles McMahon (May 10, 1953 – April 29, 1975) and Darwin Lee Judge (February 16, 1956 – April 29, 1975) were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon. Charles McMahon, 11 days short of his 22nd birthday, was a corporal from Woburn, Massachusetts. Darwin Judge

title: Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge

text: Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge Charles McMahon (May 10, 1953 – April 29, 1975) and Darwin Lee Judge (February 16, 1956 – April 29, 1975) were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon. Charles McMahon, 11 days short of his 22nd birthday, was a corporal from Woburn, Massachusetts. Darwin Judge was a 19-year-old lance corporal and Eagle Scout from Marshalltown, Iowa. McMahon and Judge were members of the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Battalion at the

title: The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

text: The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) is a freely-accessible website containing the complete print and manuscript works of Charles Darwin, as well as related supplementary material. Darwin Online is a research project and website based at the National University of Singapore. It aims to provide all available print and manuscript material except unpublished letters, which are being made available separately by the Darwin Correspondence Project. In addition Darwin Online includes the largest bibliographical list of Darwin's publications and the largest union catalogue of Darwin papers and manuscripts worldwide. The

title: Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions

text: with Henrietta and Bessy to visit Cambridge where Horace had started and Frank was graduating with a good mathematics degree. Charles was haunted by the absence of "Dear Henslow", but on the last day met Sedgwick who was overjoyed to see him with his "dear family party". They had a long chat, with Sedgwick not mentioning the "Origin", possibly from tact though Darwin thought his brain "enfeebled". Late in the day Sedgwick insisted on showing Charles round his new geological museum, by the end of which Darwin was "utterly prostrated". As Darwin on struggled to get to the train the

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: and his ashes are presumed to be interred in the same grave. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), British composer. His maternal grandmother, Caroline Sarah Darwin, was Charles Darwin's older sister, and his maternal grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood III, was the older brother of Darwin's wife Emma. Nora Darwin (1885–1989), the daughter of Horace Darwin (see above), married Sir Alan Barlow. She also edited the "Autobiography of Charles Darwin" ( (hardback) and (paperback)). They had the following six children: Josiah Wedgwood (1872–1943), great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood I, was a Liberal and Labour MP, and served in the military during the Second Boer War

title: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

text: the material he [Francis Darwin] was chiefly guided by a wish to portray his father's personal character, and he succeeded in a remarkable degree in giving a true picture of the man and the student, the methods of Darwin's work and the gradual development of his opinions." Letters to and/or from the following 27 men and one woman are included: The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin is a book published in 1887 edited by Francis Darwin about his father Charles Darwin. It contains a selection of 87 letters from the correspondence of

text: grant. The project is now supported by private donation. The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) is a freely-accessible website containing the complete print and manuscript works of Charles Darwin, as well as related supplementary material. Darwin Online is a research project and website based at the National University of Singapore. It aims to provide all available print and manuscript material except unpublished letters, which are being made available separately by the Darwin Correspondence Project. In addition Darwin Online includes the largest bibliographical list of Darwin's publications and the largest

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

text: 23% of the available audience was watching. The programme drew effusive praise from critics: The Grierson Awards 2009, Winner, Best Science Documentary Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life is a 2009 television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites

title: Florence Henrietta Darwin

text: series of photographic portraits by her great aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, including "A Study of St John the Baptist". She married first Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), jurist and historian, and they had two daughters, Ermengard (1887 - 1968) and Fredegond (1889 - 1949); Fredegond was a poet who married the economist Gerald Frank Shove. On 3 March 1913, aged 49, Florence became the third wife of Sir Francis Darwin, the twice-widowed botanist son of Charles Darwin. He was also a first cousin once removed (twice over) of her sister's husband Ralph Vaughan Williams, the second Josiah Wedgwood and his wife,

title: Erasmus Darwin

text: Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole (1718–1780); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry. When Edward Pole died, Darwin married Elizabeth and moved to her home, Radbourne Hall, four miles (6 km) west of Derby. The hall and village are these days known as Radbourne. In 1782, they moved to Full Street, Derby. They had four sons, one of whom died in infancy, and three daughters: Darwin's personal appearance is described in unflattering detail in his Biographical Memoirs, printed

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: diplomat. Son of Charles Galton Darwin. Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin (1910–1974) was an artist. He is the son of Bernard Darwin, see above. Quentin Keynes (1921–2003) was a bibliophile and explorer. Son of Margaret Keynes, née Darwin, see above. Professor Richard Darwin Keynes FRS (1919–2010) was a British physiologist. Son of Margaret Keynes, née Darwin, see above. Ursula Mommens (née Darwin, first married name Trevelyan) (1908–2010) was a well-known potter. Daughter of Bernard Darwin, see above. Her son by Julian Trevelyan is the movie-maker Philip Trevelyan. Air Commodore Geoffrey Tindal-Carill-Worsley (1908–1996) was a Royal Air Force officer during the Second

title: Religious views of Charles Darwin

text: in 1915, claimed that Darwin had reverted to Christianity on his sickbed. The claims were rejected by Darwin's children and have been dismissed as false by historians. Religious views of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin's views on religion have been the subject of much interest. His pivotal work in the development of modern biology and evolution theory played a prominent part in debates about religion and science at the time, then, in the early 20th century became a focus of the creation-evolution controversy in the United States. Charles Darwin had a non-conformist Unitarian background, but attended a Church of England school.

title: Health of Charles Darwin

text: Health of Charles Darwin For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin's health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time. However, in some ways this may have helped his work, and Charles Darwin wrote "Even ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement." He consulted numerous doctors, but, with the medical science of the time, the cause remained undiagnosed. He tried all available treatments, but, at best, they had only temporary success. More recently, there has been

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: ancestors is also given. Note that the data tree below does not include all descendants or even all prominent descendants. 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, Josiah's granddaughter. Robert's inheritance of

title: Charles Darwin School

text: Charles Darwin School Charles Darwin School is the only secondary school in the Biggin Hill area. The school consists of 1,320 secondary and sixth form students. Currently the head teacher is Mr Sunil Chotai. The school has recently received a good in an October 2013 Ofsted inspection. GCSE results have demonstrated continued year-on-year improvement to 69.4% A*-C including English and maths, with 90% 5 GCSE good grades. At A-level 82% of 6th formers gained A-C grades. The school is London's most southerly school and has a catchment including schools from Bromley, Croydon, Kent and Surrey. Public transport to the school

title: Health of Charles Darwin

text: Unitarian. His father, speaking from experience, warned Charles before he proposed to Emma that "some women suffered miserably by doubting about the salvation of their husbands, thus making them likewise to suffer." Darwin did tell Emma of his ideas at that stage, and, while she was deeply concerned about the danger to his afterlife expressed in the Gospel, "If a man abide not in me...they are burned", she married him and remained fully supportive of his work throughout their marriage. She read and helped with his "Essay" setting out his theory in 1844, long before he showed his theory to

title: The Genius of Charles Darwin

text: on the cruelty in the world which seemed to deny a loving God, in particular the loss of his daughter Annie. While Dawkins does address the bleakness of the Darwinian view, he spends the last part of this episode describing how Darwin and he himself address it, ending by saying: The Genius of Charles Darwin The Genius of Charles Darwin is a three-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. It was first shown in August 2008 on Channel 4. It won Best TV Documentary Series 2008 at the British Broadcast Awards in January 2009. In the

title: Darwin Harbour

text: Darwin Harbour Darwin Harbour is the body of water close to Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It opens to the north at a line from Charles Point in the west to Lee Point in the east into the Beagle Gulf and connects via the Clarence Strait with the Van Diemen Gulf. It contains Port Darwin, which is flanked by Frances Bay to the east and Cullen Bay to the west. It was named after the naturalist Charles Darwin who sailed with Robert Fitzroy on the ship HMS "Beagle" around parts of Australia. However, Darwin and Fitzroy sailed in

title: Francis Sacheverel Darwin

text: Francis Sacheverel Darwin Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (17 June 1786 – 6 November 1859) was a physician and traveller who was knighted by King George IV. Francis Galton and Charles Darwin were his nephews. Francis Sacheverel was a son of Erasmus Darwin and his second wife Elizabeth (née) Collier, widow of Col Edward Pole and natural daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. He was an uncle (and godfather) of Francis Galton, half-brother of Robert Waring Darwin and a half-uncle of Charles Darwin. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1808, at 22, he started with four others, one

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

text: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life is a 2009 television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin's own life, including Down House, Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum, and using archive footage from Attenborough's many

title: Francis Darwin

text: then went to study medicine at St George's Medical School, London, earning an MB in 1875, but did not practice medicine. Darwin was married three times and widowed twice. First he married Amy Richenda Ruck in 1874, but she died in 1876 four days after the birth of their son Bernard Darwin, who was later to become a golf writer. In September 1883 he married Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856 - 1903) and they had a daughter Frances Crofts Darwin (1886–1960), a poet who married the poet Francis Cornford and became known under her married name. His third wife was Florence

title: Darwin–Wedgwood family

text: Ronald Fisher, thus being the link between the two great evolutionary biologists. Horace Darwin (1851–1928) and Ida Darwin (1854–1946) had the following children: He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife. His brother Sir Francis Darwin is interred in the same graveyard. 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 (1885–1957) was the daughter of George

title: Charles Darwin

text: introduced him to the popular craze for beetle collecting; Darwin pursued this zealously, getting some of his finds published in James Francis Stephens' "Illustrations of British entomology". He became a close friend and follower of botany professor John Stevens Henslow and met other leading parson-naturalists who saw scientific work as religious natural theology, becoming known to these dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near, Darwin applied himself to his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of William Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" (1794). In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin

title: Health of Charles Darwin

text: anyone else. She went through the pages, making notes in the margins pointing out unclear passages and showing where she disagreed. As his illness progressed, she nursed him, restraining him from overworking and making him take holiday breaks, always helping him to continue with his work. Darwin had a complex relationship to religion. The Darwin–Wedgwood family were of the Unitarian church, with his grandfather Erasmus Darwin and father taking this to the extent of Freethought, but, in the repressive climate of the early 19th century, his father complied with the Anglican Church of England. Charles Darwin's education at school was

title: Charles Darwin University

text: buildings at various times in Darwin. By the time of the formation of the Northern Territory University, it gave degrees in arts, education, business and applied science. The Menzies School of Health Research was established in 1985 as a body corporate of the Northern Territory Government under the Menzies Act 1985. This act was amended in 2004 to formalise the relationship with Charles Darwin University (CDU). Menzies is now a major partner of CDU and constitutes a school within the university on campus at CDU Casuarina offering post-graduate degrees and higher degrees by research. On several occasions the Government of

title: Darwin from Orchids to Variation

text: convincingly that any single variation would be blended back into the population, so that to form a new species numerous variations would have to be created simultaneously, reintroducing the need for divine intervention. By June Lyell was struggling to revise his "Principles of Geology", though Darwin still hoped that he would at last "speak out plainly about species". Lyell found Darwin's proofs of "Variation" "most persuasive", but Darwin was struggling to sort out the changes and corrections he wanted. Encouragement came from the Reverend professor Charles Kingsley who sent the previously unthinkable news that "the best and strongest men" at

title: Charles Darwin University

text: and higher education through its main campus in Alice Springs, and to a lesser extent the whole Northern Territory. Centralian College is a co-educational senior secondary school, for students from Year 10 to Year 12. Centralian College shares its campus with the Charles Darwin University campus of Alice Springs. Centralian College uses the university's facilities and students attending Centralian College can participate in VET courses (as early as Year 10) offered by CDU. The Northern Territory University (NTU) was founded in January 1989 by a merger of the Darwin Institute of Technology and the University College of the Northern Territory.

title: Maud Darwin

text: Maud Darwin Lady Martha Haskins "Maud" Darwin (née du Puy; July 27, 1861- 6 February 1947) was an American socialite. She was the wife of the English Cambridge University astronomer Sir George Darwin. She was born in 1861 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles Meredith du Puy (1823- 1898), author of "A Genealogical History of the DuPuy Family" and his wife Ellen Reynolds, daughter of John Reynolds, an English born clergyman and his wife Eleanor Evans. Her aunt, Caroline Lane Reynolds travelled to England in and married Richard Claverhouse Jebb. In turn, Maud visited her aunt in Cambridge. She rejected

title: Francis Darwin

text: to the discovery of auxin. Darwin was nominated by his father to the Linnean Society of London in 1875, and was elected as a Fellow of the Society on 2 December 1875. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 June 1882, the same year in which his father died. Darwin edited "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin" (1887), and produced some books of letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin; "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" (1887) and "More Letters of Charles Darwin" (1905). He also edited Thomas Huxley's "On the Reception of the Origin of

title: Correspondence of Charles Darwin

text: Correspondence of Charles Darwin The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with numerous other luminaries of his age and members of his family. These have provided many insights about the nineteenth century, from scientific exploration and travel to religious debate and discussion. The letters also illuminate many aspects of Darwin's work: the development of his scientific ideas; his opinions on issues he did not publish about (his letters to Asa Gray, for example, show his changing opinions on the American Civil War); matters about his character and health; the ways in which he relied upon correspondence for much of his investigations