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Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, 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 a fellow of Trinity College , and elected 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:
His family home, "the Orchard", in Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, is now the site of New Hall . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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