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Erasmus Alvey Darwin (29 December 1804 – 26 August 1881), nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier. They were brought up at the family home, The Mount House , Shrewsbury, Shropshire , England.
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
The son of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Darwin was a noted physician from Shrewsbury, [2] whose own income as a physician, together with astute investment of his wife's inherited wealth, enabled him to fund his son Charles Darwin's place on the Voyage of the Beagle and then gave him the private income needed to support Charles' chosen vocation in ...
The book covers the life of Emma Darwin (1808–1896) but starts from 1796 with Emma's family background and the nine Allen sisters of Creselly, Pembrokeshire, and their two brothers. These, Emma's mother, aunts and uncles, were the children of John Bartlett Allen (1733–1803), and his first wife (married 1763) Elizabeth (née Hensleigh, c ...
Charles Robert Darwin (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / [5] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [6] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Further volumes of letters followed - More Letters of Charles Darwin in 1903. Charles's wife Emma Darwin's correspondence was published by Charles and Emma's daughter (Frank's sister) Henrietta Litchfield in 1905/1915 as Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters. The book received extensive reviews in The Times [2] and The Manchester Guardian [3]
Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 [1] – 17 December 1927 [2]) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Henrietta was born at Down House , Downe , Kent, in 1843.
Caroline was born on 14 September 1800 at Shrewsbury to Susannah (nee Wedgwood) and Dr. Robert Waring Darwin.She was the second of the six children. [3] [4]Caroline's father was a well respected physician, a shrewd businessmen and a keen gardener, described by many contemporaries as a talkative, liberal and freethinking person with a "theory for almost everything which occurred".