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John Darwin was released on probation in January 2011 [45] and Anne Darwin was released in March 2011. [ 46 ] On 14 February 2012, the CPS announced that the entire £501,641.39 in life insurance and pension payouts received by Anne Darwin had been recovered, partly from the sale of two properties in Panama.
John Darwin (statistician) (1923–2008), Government Statistician of New Zealand John Darwin (historian) (born 1948), British historian John Darwin disappearance case , British criminal who in 2002 faked his own death in a canoeing accident
Gareth John Darwin CBE FBA (born 29 June 1948 [2]) is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of the British Empire. [3] From 1984 to 2019, he was the Beit Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. [2]
John Haddrick Darwin (17 December 1923 – 29 October 2008) was a New Zealand statistician, he rose to Government Statistician [1] of New Zealand from 1980 to 1984 and a member of the 1985–1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System which recommended mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation.
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is an ITV television drama series that was first broadcast on 17 April 2022. [2] Written by Chris Lang and directed by Richard Laxton, the programme dramatises the John Darwin disappearance case (2002-2007), where prison officer and teacher John Darwin faked his own death in a canoeing accident, and reappeared five and a half years after he was believed to ...
Darwin explained sexual selection as a combination of "female choosiness" and "direct competition between males". [32] Antoinette Blackwell, one of the first women to write a critique of Darwin. Darwin's theories of evolution by natural selection were used to try to show women's place in society was the result of nature. [33]
John van Wyhe (born 1971), is a British historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, at the National University of Singapore.He holds various academic and research positions, ranging from founder and director of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, Scientific Associate, The Natural History Museum (London), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Member ...
The Plinian Society was a club at the University of Edinburgh for students interested in natural history.It was founded in 1823. [1] Several of its members went on to have prominent careers, most notably Charles Darwin who announced his first scientific discoveries at the society.