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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.
Emma Darwin with Charles Waring Darwin. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the tenth and last of the children. Emma Darwin was aged 48 at the time of the birth, and the child was mentally subnormal and never learnt to walk or talk. He probably had Down syndrome, which had not then been medically described.
In R. B. Freeman's Charles Darwin bibliography, he noted that the publication "contains a large number of letters from Charles and is an important source of information about his day to day and family life". [5] The 1915 edition also contains a brief biography of Erasmus Darwin IV, Emma's grandson who had been recently killed in the First World ...
Around 2000, Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes discovered a box containing keepsakes of Anne collected by Charles and Emma. [5] He wrote a biography of Charles Darwin centred on the relationship between Darwin and his daughter, entitled Annie's Box; the script of the 2009 film Creation is based on the book.
Charles Waring Darwin (1856–1858) was the tenth child and sixth son of Charles and Emma Darwin. His early death from scarlet fever kept Charles Darwin from attending the first publication of his theory at the joint reading of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace and himself at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. Wallace was not ...
An ambitious 18-year project has virtually reassembled the complete library of naturalist Charles Darwin for the first time since he died in 1882. ... Darwin’s reading notebooks, his wife’s ...
The children of King Charles III and Princess Diana have made a number of splashy headlines, just like their parents. ... He met his now-wife, Meghan Markle, in 2016 and proposed to her the ...
Francis Darwin in 1910. Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848. He was the third son and seventh child of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School. [3] He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, first studying mathematics, then changing to natural sciences, graduating in 1870.