Horace Darwin
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Sir Horace Darwin, F.R.S. (13th May 1851 - 29th September 1928), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.
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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:
- Erasmus Darwin (December 7, 1881 - April 24 1915) who was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War [1].
- Ruth Frances Darwin (1883-1972), married Dr William Rees-Thomas, was a notable advocate of eugenics.
- Emma Nora Darwin (1885-1989) edited the 1959 edition of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and married the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow.
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