THE FAMILY OF CHARLES & EMMA DARWIN : we now have images of the graves of all 21 members of CHARLES & EMMA DARWIN's immediate family: Charles & Emma themselves, 10 children: with 8 wives and 1 husband; TOTAL OF 19 in England & 1 in Wales and 1 in France.
Cambridge, England = 7:
E.W.D., was E.W.C. (Girton)
F.D., Sir (Ascension)
F.H.D., previously Maitland, was F.H.F., Lady (Ascension)
G.H.D., Sir (Trumpington Extension)
‘I’ (E.C.) D., was E.C. F., Lady (Ascension)
H.D., Sir (Ascension)
M.H.D., was M.H.DuP.,Lady (Trumpington Extension, cremated)
Cannes, France = 1 :
R.B.L.
Corris, Wales = 1
A.R.D. (was A.R.R.)
Downe, England = 5
C.W.D.
E.D.
E.D. (was E.W.)
H.E.L. (was H.E.D.)
M.E.D.
Forest Row, England = 2
L.D.
(C.) M. D. (was C.M.M.)
Great Malvern, England = 1
A.E.D.
London, England = 2
*E.F.D., was E.F.F. (Putney Vale)
C.D. (Westminster Abbey)
North Stoneham, England = 2
W.E.D.
S.P.A.D. (was S.P.A.S.)
The elder brother of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1815 until 1822 and it was while a pupil there that he developed an interest in books and plants. He became interested in chemistry, and, with his brother Charles as assistant, carried out experiments in his garden shed. From 1822 he studied medicine at Christ's College, Cambridge, and in 1825 went to join his brother at Edinburgh University. On completing his studies under the surgeon John Lizars he travelled to London where he enrolled in anatomy school. He gave up his medical career in 1829 at age twenty-six, on the advice of his father, also a doctor, who considered him to delicate to withstand the stresses of a medical career. He then went to live in London and Charles stayed with him several times before and after his voyage on the Beagle. He spent much of his time in the company of the radical writer Harriett Martineau and giving intellectual dinner parties whose guests included Charles Babbage, Hansleigh Wedgwood and Thomas Carlyle. By 1852 he was regarded as a confirmed bachelor, but he was a popular uncle to Charles' children and a regular visitor to Down House. In 1863 he joined the Council of the Abolitionist Ethnological Society of London. A long term user of opium, by 1880 he was in poor health and he rarely left his house in the months before his death. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.
THE FAMILY OF CHARLES & EMMA DARWIN : we now have images of the graves of all 21 members of CHARLES & EMMA DARWIN's immediate family: Charles & Emma themselves, 10 children: with 8 wives and 1 husband; TOTAL OF 19 in England & 1 in Wales and 1 in France.
Cambridge, England = 7:
E.W.D., was E.W.C. (Girton)
F.D., Sir (Ascension)
F.H.D., previously Maitland, was F.H.F., Lady (Ascension)
G.H.D., Sir (Trumpington Extension)
‘I’ (E.C.) D., was E.C. F., Lady (Ascension)
H.D., Sir (Ascension)
M.H.D., was M.H.DuP.,Lady (Trumpington Extension, cremated)
Cannes, France = 1 :
R.B.L.
Corris, Wales = 1
A.R.D. (was A.R.R.)
Downe, England = 5
C.W.D.
E.D.
E.D. (was E.W.)
H.E.L. (was H.E.D.)
M.E.D.
Forest Row, England = 2
L.D.
(C.) M. D. (was C.M.M.)
Great Malvern, England = 1
A.E.D.
London, England = 2
*E.F.D., was E.F.F. (Putney Vale)
C.D. (Westminster Abbey)
North Stoneham, England = 2
W.E.D.
S.P.A.D. (was S.P.A.S.)
The elder brother of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1815 until 1822 and it was while a pupil there that he developed an interest in books and plants. He became interested in chemistry, and, with his brother Charles as assistant, carried out experiments in his garden shed. From 1822 he studied medicine at Christ's College, Cambridge, and in 1825 went to join his brother at Edinburgh University. On completing his studies under the surgeon John Lizars he travelled to London where he enrolled in anatomy school. He gave up his medical career in 1829 at age twenty-six, on the advice of his father, also a doctor, who considered him to delicate to withstand the stresses of a medical career. He then went to live in London and Charles stayed with him several times before and after his voyage on the Beagle. He spent much of his time in the company of the radical writer Harriett Martineau and giving intellectual dinner parties whose guests included Charles Babbage, Hansleigh Wedgwood and Thomas Carlyle. By 1852 he was regarded as a confirmed bachelor, but he was a popular uncle to Charles' children and a regular visitor to Down House. In 1863 he joined the Council of the Abolitionist Ethnological Society of London. A long term user of opium, by 1880 he was in poor health and he rarely left his house in the months before his death. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.
Inscription
"one of the sincerest, truest and most modest of men".
In memory of Erasmus Alvery Darwin, eldest son of Robert Waring Darwin, M.D., Born 29th December 1804 at Shrewsbury died 26th August 1881 in London. And of his brother Charles Robert Darwin who lived for forty years at Down House in this parish. Born at Shrewsbury 12 February 1809 died at Down 19th April 1882. His body lies buried in Westminster Abbey and of Emma, wife of Charles Robert Darwin, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood of Maer Hall, Staffordshire born May 2nd 1808 died at Down October 2nd 1896.
Family Members
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