Horace Darwin
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Sir Horace Darwin, F.R.S. (13th May 1851 - 29th September 1928), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin was a civil engineer.
Darwin was born in Down House in 1850, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.
Darwin married Emma Farrer in January 1880, and they had three children. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885 and was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903. He was knighted in 1918.
External links
- Details of grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5935489&pt=Sir%20Horace%20Darwin)