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Erasmus Darwin IV. Ruth Frances Darwin. Nora Barlow. Parent (s) Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS (13 May 1851 – 22 September 1928) was an English engineer specializing in the design and manufacture of precision scientific instruments. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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On his return to Cambridge, Horace started to design scientific instruments for the University, and in 1881, he founded the ‘Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company’ in partnership with his friend Albert Dew-Smith. Their premises were first in Panton Street, then in St Tibbs Row in 1882. In 1891 Horace took sole control of the company. As a result ...
Horace married Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer, daughter of Lord Farrer, in 1880. She was a distant relative on his mother’s side and her family were not impressed with this match, as they considered Horace to have both poor health and poor prospects. Despite this foreboding, they had a very happy, successful marriage. Horace and Ida had three children: ...
Apart from his membership of various local and University boards and committees, Horace was also an alderman and a J.P. in Cambridge. He served as Mayor of the city from 1896 – 1897. This was a time when most social activity revolved around the small and exclusive set formed by members of the University and their families - the town was not conside...
Horace Darwin was the youngest son of Charles and Emma Darwin, and a successful entrepreneur who founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a mayor of Cambridge, and a philanthropist who supported various charities and causes.
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. He married Emma Wedgwood (1808–1896), a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II and ...
Horace Darwin (1851-1928) was a civil engineer, founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, and a member of the Darwin family. Explore his personal and professional papers, correspondence, and memorials in various collections and records at Cambridge University Library.
- Charles Darwin began gathering data on the natural history of babies immediately upon the birth of his first child, William Erasmus Darwin, on 27 December 1839.
- Charles and Emma’s first daughter, Anne Elizabeth died of tuberculosis at age 10. Charles never fully recovered from this tragic loss. He was at Annie’s bedside as she suffered terribly for a week before dying on 23 April 1851.
- The Darwin’s second daughter, Mary Eleanor, was born 23 September 1842 and lived only 23 days.
- Henrietta Emma Darwin had a sickly childhood, but lived to the age of 84. She became her father’s editor and her mother’s biographer.
Feb 21, 2017 · Horace Darwin (1851–1928) As well as childhood fevers, Horace experienced strange episodes as a child. At age 10, these episodes were termed ‘fits’ or shakes. His father described them as ‘the oddest of attacks, many times a day, of shuddering and gasping and hysterical sobbing, semi-convulsive movements, with much distress of feeling.
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