page_title: Darwin–Wedgwood family
section_title: Charles Darwin
hierarchical_section_title: Darwin–Wedgwood family / The third generation / Charles Darwin
caption_attribution_description: English: Water-color portrait of Emma Darwin (wife of Charles Darwin) from the late 1830s by George Richmond. Emma Wedgwood Darwin (1808-1896) in 1840, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, and daughter of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood II.
context_page_description: The Darwin–Wedgwood family are persons descended from both of two particular prominent 18th-century men; Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the eponymous Wedgwood and Sons pottery company.
  The most notable among them was Charles Darwin, a grandson to each. The family also included at least ten Fellows of the Royal Society, and several artists and poets. Presented below are brief biographical descriptions and genealogical information, and mentions of some notable descendants. The relationship to Francis Galton, and to his immediate ancestors, is also given.
context_section_description: 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.
  The Darwins had ten children, three of whom died before reaching maturity.
  William Erasmus Darwin (1839–1914); graduate of Christ's College Cambridge, he was a banker in Southampton. He married an American Sara Sedgwick (1839–1902), but they did not have any children.
  Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841–1851) died in Great Malvern aged ten and her death caused her father much grief.
  Mary Eleanor Darwin (1842–1842) died as a baby.
  Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin (1843–1927); although she married Richard Litchfield during 1871, the couple never had any children. Etty Darwin edited her mother's private papers (published during 1904) and assisted her father with his work.
  George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) (see below)
  Elizabeth (Bessy) Darwin (1847–1926); never married and did not have any progeny.
  Francis Darwin (1848–1925) (see below).
  Leonard Darwin (1850–1943) (see below).
  Horace Darwin (1851–1928) (see below).
  Charles Waring Darwin (1856–1858) was the tenth child and sixth son of Charles and Emma Darwin. His early death from scarlet fever kept Charles Darwin from attending the first publication of his theory at the joint reading of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace and himself at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. Wallace was not present either; he was on an expedition.
caption: Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood).
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