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Robert Darwin

Dr Robert Waring Darwin, F.R.S. (30 May, 1766 - 13 November, 1848) was an English

England

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
. He was part of the intellectual and influential Darwin-Wedgwood family.

in was born in Lichfield

Lichfield

Lichfield is a city status in the United Kingdom and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. One of seven civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated 25 km north of Birmingham and 200 km northwest of central London....
in 1766, the son of Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin , was an England physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor and poet. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers....
and his first wife Mary Howard.

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Dr Robert Waring Darwin, F.R.S. (30 May, 1766 - 13 November, 1848) was an English

England

Charles Darwin

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Darwin was born in Lichfield

Lichfield

Erasmus Darwin

Robert Waring Darwin of Elston

Robert Waring Darwin of Elston Hall was an English botanist.He was the son of Robert Darwin of Elston , a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ....
(1724-1816), a bachelor. His mother died in 1770 and Mary Parker, the governess

Governess

A governess is a female employee of a family who teaches children within their home. In contrast to a nanny or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not their physical needs....
hired to look after him, became his father's mistress and bore Erasmus two illegitimate daughters.

Darwin studied medicine at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and took his MD

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a Doctorate for physicians . The degree is granted from medical schools.It is a first professional degree in some countries, including the United States and Canada, although training is entered after obtaining at least 90 hours of university level work ....
from the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh founded in 1582, is an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom....
in 1786, when he was only 20. In Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
he studied under several leading scholars, including John Walker

John Walker (naturalist)

John Walker was Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was a protege of the chemist William Cullen and a colleague of Dugald Stewart, Joseph Black and several other Edinburgh professors who shaped the intellectual milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment....
. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 February 1788. He set up practice in Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is home to 70,689 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement of the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which has a population of 95,850....
, a city near Wales

Wales

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.

A large man of 6'2", he reportedly stopped weighing himself when he weighed 24 stone (336 lb). He required his coachman to test the floorboards of houses he was visiting, and had to have special stone steps made for him to enter his carriage.

He held his experience in Edinburgh in such high regard that he sent his son Charles to study there. He cautioned his son against voyaging on the HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee class brig-sloop 10-gun sloop-of-war#Rigging of the Royal Navy, named after the beagle, a breed of dog. She was ship naming and launching on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of ?7,803....
, but was persuaded otherwise.

Family

On 18 April 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was an England potter, credited with the industrial process of the manufacture of pottery. He was a member of the Darwin-Wedgwood family, most famously including his grandson, Charles Darwin....
, at St Marylebone, Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
(now part of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
), and they had six children:

Marianne Darwin (1798-1858), married Henry Parker (1788–1858) in 1824.
Caroline Sarah Darwin (1800-1888) married her cousin Josiah Wedgwood III
Josiah Wedgwood III

Josiah "Joe" Wedgwood III , a grandson of the England potter Josiah Wedgwood.Wedgwood was the eldest son of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth Allen....
Susan Elizabeth Darwin (1803-1866)
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Erasmus Alvey Darwin

Erasmus Alvey Darwin , nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England....
(1804-1881)
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
Emily Catherine Darwin (1810-1866)

Robert Darwin

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