| Horace Darwin |
Article Index for Horace |
Website Links For Horace |
Information AboutHorace Darwin |
|
BIOGRAPHY Darwin was born in Down House in 1850, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma , the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885 and was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897. He was made a Fellow Of The Royal Society in 1903 . He was knighted in 1918 . Darwin married Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer ( 1854 – 1946 ), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer in January 1880 , and they had one son and two daughters:
EXTERNAL LINKS |
|
|