translate English to French: He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side, both from the Darwin — Wedgwood family , a prominent English family which supported the Unitarian church. His mother died when he was only eight.
Il y tombe sous l'influence intellectuelle d'esprits scientifiques tels que William Whewell et John Stevens Henslow , ce qui, combiné avec son intérêt pour la collection de scarabées, encouragé par son cousin William Darwin Fox, le pousse vers l' histoire naturelle .