Bernard Darwin Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP ( 7 September 1876 – 18 October 1961 ) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin , was a golf writer and high - standard amateur golfer . He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame . Biography . Darwin was the son of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck , his mother dying from a fever on 11 September , four days after his birth . He was the first grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin ( see Darwin — Wedgwood family ) , and was brought up by them at their home , Down House . His younger half - sister was the poet Frances Cornford . Darwin was educated at Eton College , and graduated in law from Trinity College , Cambridge , where he was a Cambridge Blue in golf 1895 - 1897 , and team captain in his final year . Darwin married the engraver Elinor Monsell in 1906 . They had one son , Sir Robert Vere Darwin , and two daughters ; the potter Ursula Mommens , and Nicola Mary Elizabeth Darwin . During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Macedonia as a lieutenant . After Cambridge , Darwin became a court lawyer , but did not particularly enjoy that career , and gradually moved into journalism , despite having no formal training . He covered golf for " The Times " from 1907 to 1953 and for " Country Life " from 1907 to 1961 , the first writer ever to cover golf on a daily basis , instead of as an occasional feature . He played the game at an excellent level himself well into middle age , and competed in The Amateur Championship on 26 occasions across five decades between 1898 and 1935 , with his best results being semi - final appearances in 1909 and 1921 . In 1922 , while in the United States to report on the first Walker Cup amateur team match between Britain and Ireland and the U . S . , and also appointed as non - playing captain , Darwin was pressed into service at the last minute as a player , when one of the British team members , Robert Harris , was unable to play . He lost his team match , but won his singles match . He was Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1934 , and was President of the Golf Club Managers ' Association ( then the Association of Golf Club Secretaries ) from 1933 to 1934 and then again from 1955 to 1958 . Though mainly a golf writer , he also occasionally wrote on cricket , and prefaced the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations . Bernard Darwin was an authority on Charles Dickens . He frequently contributed the fourth leading article in " The Times " . The fourth Leader was devoted to flippant themes , and Darwin was known to insert quotes from or about Dickens in them . When Oxford Press issued all classics by Dickens around 1940 , each with a foreword by a Dickensian scholar , Darwin was chosen to contribute the foreword to The Pickwick Papers . He was also asked by " The Times " to pen the main tribute to cricketer W . G . Grace when Grace ' s birth centenary was celebrated in 1948 . The article has been included since in a few anthologies . Bernard Darwin ' s works were kept in print by Herbert Warren Wind through his curated Classics of Golf Library . In 2005 , Darwin was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame , in the Lifetime Achievement category . He is buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard , Downe , Kent ; nearby is Down House , the home of the Darwin family . Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard , Downe , Kent are : Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell ; Charles Waring Darwin ; Elizabeth Darwin ; Emma Darwin , Charles Darwin ' s wife ; Erasmus Alvey Darwin ; Mary Eleanor Darwin ; Henrietta Etty Darwin , later Litchfield . Charles Darwin himself is buried in Westminster Abbey . Results in major championships . Note : Darwin played in only The Amateur Championship . NT = No tournament < br > DNP = Did not play < br > R512 , R256 , R128 , R64 , R32 , R16 , QF , SF = Round in which player lost in match play < br > Yellow background for top - 10 Source for 1898 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 26 May 1898 , pg . 11 . Source for 1899 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 25 May 1899 , pg . 8 . Source for 1902 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 1 May 1902 , pg . 11 . Source for 1903 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 20 May 1903 , pg . 13 . Source for 1904 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 2 June 1904 , pg . 13 . Source for 1908 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 29 May 1908 , pg . 14 . Source for 1909 British Amateur : The American Golfer , July , 1909 , pg . 13 . Source for 1910 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 1 June 1910 , pg . 10 . Source for 1911 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 1 June 1911 , pg . 10 . Source for 1912 British Amateur : The American Golfer , July , 1912 , pg . 199 . Source for 1913 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 28 May 1913 , pg . 15 . Source for 1914 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 20 May 1914 , pg . 12 . Source for 1920 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 8 June 1920 , pg . 12 . Source for 1921 British Amateur : The American Golfer , 4 June 1921 , pg . 24 . Source for 1922 British Amateur : The American Golfer , 1 July 1922 , pg . 30 . Source for 1923 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 9 May 1923 , pg . 13 . Source for 1924 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 27 May 1924 , pg . 3 . Source for 1925 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 27 May 1925 , pg . 11 . Source for 1927 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 24 May 1927 , pg . 10 . Source for 1928 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 22 May 1928 , pg . 4 . Source for 1929 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 13 June 1929 , pg . 10 . Source for 1930 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 27 May 1930 , pg . 3 . Source for 1931 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 21 May 1931 , pg . 16 . Source for 1932 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 26 May 1932 , pg . 17 . Source for 1933 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 21 June 1933 , pg . 5 . Source for 1935 British Amateur : The Glasgow Herald , 22 May 1935 , pg . 7 . Team appearances . Amateur