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Balfour, John Hutton. 1882. Obituary Notice of Charles Robert Darwin. Transactions & Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 14: 284-8.
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Balfour, John Hutton. 1882. Obituary Notice of Charles Robert Darwin. Transactions Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 14: 284-8. [page] 284 Obituary Notice of Charles Robert Darwin. By JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR, M.D., Hon. Sec. (Read 11th May 1882.) We have to lament the death of the late Charles R. Darwin, M.A., LL.D. Cantab., F.R.S., Hon. F.R.S.E., F.L.S., and Honorary Member of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. Darwin was born at the Mount, Shrewsbury, on 12th February 1809. His
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page 535] DEATH OF CHARLES DARWIN. THE intelligence of the death of Mr. Charles Darwin, in his 74th year, on the 19th inst., will be received with the greatest concern. To few, comparatively, was it privileged to have personal acquaintance with this remarkable man, as, owing to his always feeble health and retiring disposition, Mr. Darwin, though he became world-famous, yet entered little into public society. He was born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, in
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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. George's Church is passed, and the continuous line of houses ceases. The next carriage drive, on the right, cutting in two a lofty side-walk, is the entrance to The Mount. A short street of new houses near St. George's Church has been called Darwin Street ; as yet the only public recognition in the town of the greatest of Salopians. A memorial of a more private character has been placed in the Unitarian Chapel, in the form of a tablet bearing the following inscription:— To the memory of Charles Robert
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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land leased by the trustees of that charity), and, with characteristic readiness to welcome every improvement, furnished it with the appliances which had lately been introduced by Pestalozzi and other educational reformers. In his late years, Dr. Darwin was called the Father of Frankwell, the suburb of Shrewsbury in which The Mount is situated. He died on the 13th of November, 1848, and at his funeral the poor, who lost in him a wise and life-long friend, and even the children, whom he always
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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.1 It was in 1786, when he was twenty years of age, that Robert Darwin settled at Shrewsbury. His success was so rapid that he soon bought a piece of land adjoining the Holyhead road, to the north-west of the town, where he built himself a house in a charming situation high above the Severn; and to The Mount, in 1796, he brought his wife, Susannah, the eldest daughter of Josiah Wedgwood of Etruria. There, on the 12th of February, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born, the descendant of two
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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custom in this town to give dinners in summer. Shrewsbury still wore much of its middle-age aspect. Most of the houses of the better sort differed little in style from what they were in the days of the Tudors; many of the shops displayed their wares on baulks and hanging shutters; the streets were badly paved and scarcely lighted at all. Coming to this quaint old town, Robert Darwin took up his residence on St. John's Hill, but in a short time the property at The Mount was bought, and the house
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down in the quiet old Salopian town, where for half a century his portly figure and yellow chaise were familiar objects of the country-side for miles around. Among a literary society which included Coleridge's friends, the Tayleurs, and where Hazlitt listened with delight to the great poet's 'music of the spheres,' in High Street Unitarian Chapel, the Mount kept up with becoming dignity the family traditions of the Darwins and the Wedgwoods as a local centre of sweetness and light. On February
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attachment to home pursuits, to quiet reading, to the luxuriant garden, and to her numerous domestic pets. The beauty, variety, and tameness of The Mount pigeons was well known in the town and far [page] 1
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there, after crossing the Welsh Bridge, follow the main street until St. George's Church is passed, and the continuous line of houses ceases. The next carriage drive, on the right, cutting in two a lofty side-walk, is the entrance to The Mount. A short street of new houses, near St. George's Church, has been called 'Darwin Street;' as yet the only public recognition in the town of the greatest of Salopians. A memorial of a more private character has been placed in the Unitarian Chapel, in the form
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beyond. Mr. Woodall states that one of Darwin's school-fellows, the Rev. W. A. Leighton, remembers him plucking a plant and recalling one of his mother's elementary lessons in botany. Too soon however the mother was taken from The Mount; she died in July, 1817, when Charles was between eight and nine years old. The eldest son of Dr. Robert Darwin, on whom the grandfather's name of Erasmus had been bestowed, is notable as the intimate friend of the Carlyles. He had something of original and
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examples. Darwin, as he tells us, kept every breed of domestic pigeons he could purchase or obtain, in order to study their variations. In this he was himself reverting to the associations of childhood, when the beauty, variety, and tameness of The Mount pigeons at Shrewsbury were well known. We can imagine the astonishment with which the eminent fanciers and members of the London Pigeon Clubs, whose acquaintance the great naturalist cultivated, received the simplicity, yet depth, of his inquiries
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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Marianne was born, lastly at the Mount, in the part of Shrewsbury known as Frankwell, where the other children were born. This house was built by Dr. Darwin about 1800, it is now in the possession of Mr. Spencer Phillips, and has undergone but little alteration. It is a large, plain, square, red-brick house, of which the most attractive feature is the pretty green-house, opening out of the morning-room. The house is charmingly placed, on the top of a steep bank leading down to the Severn. The
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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with ornamental trees and shrubs, and being especially successful in fruit-trees; and this love of plants was, I think, the only taste kindred to natural history which he possessed. Of the Mount pigeons, which Miss Meteyard describes as illustrating Dr. Darwin's natural-history tastes, I have not been able to hear from those most capable of knowing. Miss Meteyard's account of him is not quite accurate in a few points. For instance, it is incorrect to describe Dr. Darwin as having a
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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ever believe anything because he said it, unless they were themselves convinced of its truth, a feeling in striking contrast with his own manner of faith. A visit which Charles Darwin made to Shrewsbury in 1869 left on the mind of his daughter who accompanied him a strong impression of his love for his old home. The then tenant of the Mount showed them over the house, c., and with mistaken hospitality remained with the party during the whole visit. As they were leaving, Charles Darwin said
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[Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.14: 72-84.
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[Darwin, Francis.] 1888. Darwin, Charles Robert. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder Co., vol. 14: 72-84. [page] 72 DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882), naturalist, born 12 Feb. 1809, at 'The Mount,' Shrewsbury, was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and grandson of Erasmus Darwin [q.v.]. Robert Waring Darwin married, in 1796, Susannah, daughter of his father's friend, Josiah Wedgwood, and the youngest but one of her six children was Charles Robert
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Darwin, F. ed. 1889. Charles Darwins liv og breve med et kapitel selvbiografi. Translated by Martin Simon Søraas. Fagerstrand pr. Høvig: Bibliothek for de Tusen Hjem, volume 1.
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det, medmindre de selv var overbeviste om, at det var sandt — en f lelse, der staar i den skarpeste mod-sigelse med hans egen maade at tro paa. Under et bes g, som Charles Darwin aflagde i Shrewsbury 1869, gjorde hans kj rlighed til det gamle hjem et st rkt indtryk paa hans datter, som var i f lge med ham. Den dav rende beboer af the Mount viste dem gjennem huset m. m. og ledsagede dem af misforstaat gj stfrihed den hele tid. Da de skulde forlade det, ytrede Charles Darwin med patetisk rgrelse
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Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. (First Murray illustrated edition.)
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CHAP. ward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount, at Monte Video, and to the eastward, over the mammillated country of Maldonado. On the summit of the mountain there were several small heaps of stones, which evidently had lain there for many years. My companion assured me that they were the work of the Indians in the old time. The heaps were similar, but on a much smaller scale, to those so commonly found on the mountains of Wales. The desire to signalise any event
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Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.
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of character. They lived at the Crescent, and later at the Mount, in Shrewsbury, where all but one of their children were born. The old house, a large red-brick building, is now owned by Mr. Spencer Phillips. It stands on the banks of the Severn, commanding a fine view, and supplied with all the acceptable features of an English country home. Dr. Darwin was something of a botanist, though not in a scientific sense. He was tall, like his son Charles, standing six feet two inches, and very large
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.
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Meteyard ascribes to her. She died July 15, 1817, thirty-two years before her husband, whose death occurred on November 13, 1848. Dr. Darwin lived before his marriage for two or three years on St. John's Hill, afterwards at the Crescent, where his eldest daughter Marianne was born, lastly at the Mount, in the part of Shrewsbury known as Frankwell, where the other children were born. This house was built by Dr. Darwin about 1800, it is now in the possession of Mr. Spencer Phillips, and has undergone
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.
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convinced of its truth a feeling in striking contrast with his own manner of faith. A visit which Charles Darwin made to Shrewsbury in 1869 left on the mind of the daughter who accompanied him a strong impression of his love for his old home. The tenant of the Mount at the time, showed them over the house, and with mistaken hospitality remained with the party during the whole visit. As they were leaving, Charles Darwin said, with a pathetic look of regret, If I could have been left alone in that
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Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 2
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(page 469) Prof. Sedgwick lays stress on the fact that the cleavage is in no instance parallel to the true beds. 4. Geol. Obs. S. America. page 146. The mount is described as consisting of hornblendic slate; the laminae of the slate on the north and south side near the summit dip inwards. [page 201
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.
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have been able to see my father in his wheel-chair as vividly as if he had been there before me. Many years later his niece Lady Farrer made a little pilgrimage to Shrewsbury, and wrote this account of the Mount. Sept. 4, 1900. I wonder if Hope has told you of our ideal three days at the Raven. I couldn't have believed in anything so perfect exquisite weather, an hour quite alone in the garden that we loved, annihilating the 45 years that separates us from those days, which we look back upon
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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Charles and Catharine only eight and seven. Marianne and Caroline took charge of the household on the death of their mother, and Caroline taught her little brother and sister, Charles and Catharine. The following letter tells of a gathering of girls to take singing-lessons at Dr Darwin's, the Mount, Shrewsbury. The Miss Parkers, I imagine, would be sisters of Dr Parker, who married Marianne Darwin four years later, and the Miss Owens of Woodhouse were the daughters of a Shropshire squire living
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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X. 1819. Jessie Allen and Sismondi Her hesitations about accepting him An outpour to her sister Bessy's reply Some account of Sismondi Their early married life Posting across France, a troublesome journey. 159 171 CHAPTER XI. Fanny and Emma Wedgwood at 13 and 11 years old Their aunt Emma Allen's account of them A gigantic cheese from Geneva Races and Race-Balls Life at the Mount, Shrewsbury Taking Fanny and Emma to School in London The Sismondis at Geneva The Tollets at Betley. 172 192 CHAPTER
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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of Betley Hall, a squire and experimenter in agriculture, and his daughters, a group of clever spirited girls, were among their best friends. Betley was about eight miles from Maer, and my mother told me she felt as if she knew every stock and stone on the road. The Mount, Shrewsbury, the home of Dr Robert Darwin and his wife Susannah, Jos's sister, was a long day's ride of some twenty miles, and the visits between the two houses were frequent. There was a warm friendship between Dr Darwin and
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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Fanny, Mrs Pedigree, no doubt alludes to her curious tastes, of which there are many evidences lists of temperatures, lists of words in different languages, housekeeping memoranda etc. These were treasured by my mother ever since Fanny's 1 The Mount, Dr Darwin's house. L. 6 [pages] 82 - 8
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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CHAPTER XI. Fanny and Emma Wedgwood at 13 and 11 years old Their aunt Emma Allen's account of them A gigantic cheese from Geneva Races and Race-Balls Life at the Mount, Shrewsbury Taking Fanny and Emma to School in London The Sismondis at Geneva The Tollets at Betley. IN 1819 the Wedgwoods left Etruria for good and from now onwards lived at Maer. Whilst the house was being painted the family went to Cresselly, leaving little Fanny and Emma, then 13 and 11 years old, under the charge of their
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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friendship for Sarah, the eldest Miss Owen (afterwards Mrs Haliburton), and many were the stories we heard about his visits to Woodhouse. The life at Maer, with its careless freedom and absence of restraint, was a great contrast to that at the Mount. There all was orderly and correct, and everyone must conform to the Doctor's views of what was right. He was extremely kind, and my mother was attached to him, but her feeling was that no one could be quite at ease in his presence. When he was in
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.
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Marianne she adopted the Parkers, and they became almost like her children, living with her at The Mount. She had a charming sweet presence, tall, graceful, dignified, and still beautiful. My father's health was somewhat better in 1866, and they paid more than one visit to London. Emma Darwin to her aunt Fanny Allen. QUEEN ANNE STREET, Sunday [28 April, 1866]. My dearest aunt Fanny, Our last days here have been so pleasant and successful that I must write you a scrap. The greatest event was
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.
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excuse . Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen, at Baring Place, Exeter. [THE MOUNT], SHREWSBURY, June 28, 1815. What a flood of good news, my dearest Emma. I feel quite overwhelmed with it. I am obliged to Elizabeth and you for two most welcome letters, but yours has the prior claim. We are particularly grateful for the good news of Tom1, which we received with the most heartfelt pleasure. Oh how much do I sympathize with our dear Jenny upon what she must feel, at not only hearing that 1
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.
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the family till Susan Darwin's death in 1866. I saw him as an old man living in a cottage near the Mount in about 1875. [pages] 14 - 1
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Darwin George Howard to Shipley Arthur Everett
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Darwin George Howard to Shipley Arthur Everett
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] Dec 23 [1908] NEWNHAM GRANGE CAMBRIDGE Dear Shipley Still in bed— shall probably come to Bath before end of year. The following is a preliminary list. You will have to come here balk it over but keep this list to remind me. Spencer Phillips — an old friend (but not seen for 40 years), Chairman of Lloyds Bank, now lives at the Mount Shrewsbury. He rowed in 1st Form. 8, [illeg] head of rower— a good fellow— not scientific— Ought he to be invited? He
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Anon. 1909. Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebrations held at Cambridge June 22-June 24, 1909. With a sketch of Darwin's life. Cambridge: University Press.
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[Shipley, Arthur Everett and James Crawford Simpson eds.] 1909. Darwin centenary: the portraits, prints and writings of Charles Robert Darwin, exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge 1909. [Cambridge: University Press].
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62. THE HOUSE AND GARDENS AT DOWN. Four engravings from Harper's Magazine. Lent by Mrs Litchfield. 63. THE DINING-ROOM AT DOWN. Photograph by W. England. Lent by Francis Darwin, Esq., F.R.S. 64. THE MOUNT, SHREWSBURY. Photograph taken in 1879. Lent by Sir George H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S. The Mount, Shrewsbury, the birthplace of Charles Darwin, built by his father Robert Waring Darwin, about 1800, is a large plain, square, red-brick house, charmingly placed on the top of a steep bank leading
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Erasmus, Robert Waring Darwin, was the father of Charles. Like his father he was a physician, and for many years he enjoyed a large practice at Shrewsbury. He married Susannah, the daughter of his father's friend, Josiah Wedgwood, of the well-known pottery works at Etruria. The Mount, a large, red-brick, comfortable-looking, square house, was built by him about the year 1800, and here as I have said Charles Darwin was born. In his charming and frank fragments of autobiography Darwin recalls many
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Darwin Centenary Number. Christ's College Magazine. vol. XXIII, Easter Term, 1909.
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Christ's College Magazine. EASTER TERM, 1909. CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. SHREWSBURY DAYS, 1809 1825. OUR knowledge of these years of his life is almost entirely derived from the short autobiography which Darwin wrote for his children in 1876. He was born on February 12, 1809, at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the son of Robert Waring Darwin, Doctor of Medicine, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter of Burslem and Etruria. His grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, physician
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Anon. 1909. Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebrations held at Cambridge June 22-June 24, 1909. With a sketch of Darwin's life. Cambridge: University Press.
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LIST OF PLATES Charles Darwin, 1881. (From a photograph by Elliott and Fry). . Frontispiece Map of Cambridge . . . . . . . . to face Programme I. The Mount, Shrewsbury. The birthplace of Charles Darwin . . page 13 II. Charles Darwin and his sister Catherine. (From a coloured chalk drawing by Sharples, in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place) . 13 III. Charles Darwin's rooms in the front court of Christ's College (staircase G) . 14 IV. John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), Professor
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] Preliminary list of things wh. cd be lent by G.H.D Immediately personal objects voyage {gun case (no gun) geolog. apparatus telescope picture of Beagle in T. del Fuego one 'bola' ─ if not lost arm-chair (has been re-covered) straw hat little box of numbers used as calendar photo. of 'Mount' Shrewsbury (series) of Down Etching of Study at Down by Axel Haig Rajon's etching of C.D. Photos of C.D. (at least two) Less personal portraits Mrs Darwin
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! One the finished, cultured product of the most aristocratic of our public schools and the most ancient of our Universities, the other little read in the classics or in medieval and ecclesiastical lore, yet deeply versed in the knowledge of men and how to sway them. Rugged, a little rough if you like, humorous and yet sad, eminently capable, a strong man, and at heart a very perfect gentleman. On the same day, the 12th February, upon which Lincoln first saw the light, was born at the Mount
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[Frederick Belding Power]. 1909. Biographical sketch of Charles Darwin and the Darwin commemoration at Cambridge.
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concisely note some of the more important events in the life of the great naturalist, in honor of whose memory these ceremonies were held. I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CHARLES DARWIN. Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, at The Mount, Shrewsbury, England, the home of his father, Robert Waring Darwin, a Doctor of Medicine, who was the son of Erasmus Darwin, poet, physician, and philanthropist. On the mother's side he was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the Etruria Pottery
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Anon. 1909. Order of the proceedings at the Darwin celebrations held at Cambridge June 22-June 24, 1909. With a sketch of Darwin's life. Cambridge: University Press.
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A SKETCH OF DARWIN'S LIFE1 1809 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, born Feb. 12, at The Mount, Shrewsbury (Plate I), the house of his father, Dr Robert Waring Darwin (b. 1766, d. 1848), who was the son of Erasmus Darwin (b. 1731, d. 1802), Poet, Physician and Evolutionist. On the mother's side Charles Darwin was grandson of Josiah Wedgwood (b. 1730, d. 1795), the founder of the Etruria Pottery Works, Staffordshire. Charles Darwin retained a strong feeling of love and respect for his father's memory. His
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Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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court-yard in front of the hall door at the Mount House, Darwin's birthplace and the home of his childhood, is surrounded by beds or rockeries on which lie a number of pebbles. Some of these pebbles (in quite recent times as I am informed) have been collected to form a cobbled space in front of the gate in the outer wall, which fronts the hall door; and a similar cobbled area, there is reason to believe, may have existed in Darwin's childhood before the door itself. The pebbles, which were obtained
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University intelligence: The Darwin centenary. The Times.
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engravings and photographs represent Darwin from the time he was a boy four years old, where he is depicted presenting his sister with a pot of flowers, until his old age. Among these are included Pellegrini's well-known Vanity Fair cartoon, representing the naturalist seated in a high chair, similar to the one included among the exhibits. There are many views of The Mount. Shrewsbury, where Darwin was born, and of the garden, house, and village of Down; and a long series of medals, miniatures, and
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1
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sister Bessy's reply Some account of Sismondi Their early married life Posting across France . . . . . . 123 133 CHAPTER XI. 1819 1823. Emma Allen and her nieces, Fanny and Emma Wedgwood A gigantic cheese Races and Race-Balls Dr Darwin and his daughters A singing party of girls at the Mount, Shrewsbury Fanny and Emma at school in London Sunday-school at Maer The Sismondis at Geneva . . . . 134 148 [page] xii
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1
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CHAPTER XI 1819 1823 Emma Allen at Maer Fanny and Emma Wedgwood A gigantic cheese Races and Race-Balls A singing party at the Mount, Shrewsbury Dr Darwin and his daughters Fanny and Emma at school in London Sunday-school at Maer The Sismondis at Geneva. IN 1819 the Wedgwoods left Etruria, and from now onwards lived at Maer. Whilst the house was being painted the family went to Cresselly, leaving Fanny and Emma, then 13 and 11 years old, under the charge of their aunt Emma Allen at Maer. Emma
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2
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visited my father's old home, the Mount, and were accompanied by the owner as we were shown over the house. This was meant in all kindness, but I remember my father's deep disappointment as he said, If I could have been left alone in that greenhouse for five minutes, I know I should have been able to see my father in his wheel-chair as vividly as if he had been there before me. [page] 19
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1
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easy riding distance, although they mixed in the county society and went to the Race balls and other county functions. Mr Tollet of Betley Hall, a liberal squire and experimenter in agriculture, and his daughters, a group of clever, spirited girls, were among their best friends. Betley was about eight miles from Maer, and my mother told me she felt as if she knew every stock and stone on the road. The Mount, Shrewsbury, the home of Dr Robert Darwin and his wife Susannah, [page break
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Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1792-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 1
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it would be no use to send them to you, but Jenny's is gone into the fire and Sally's is just going. Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Emma Allen, at Baring Place, Exeter. [THE MOUNT], SHREWSBURY, June 28, 1815. What a flood of good news, my dearest Emma. I feel quite overwhelmed with it. I am obliged to Elizabeth and you for two most welcome letters, but yours has the prior claim. We are particularly grateful for the good news of Tom, which we received with the most heartfelt pleasure. Oh how
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Marianne and Caroline took charge of the household on the death of their mother, and Caroline taught her little brother and sister, Charles and Catharine, who were eight and seven years old. The following letter tells of a gathering of girls to take singing-lessons at Dr Darwin's, the Mount, Shrewsbury. The Miss Owens of Woodhouse, mentioned in the following letter, were the daughters of a Shropshire squire living some miles from Shrewsbury. My father kept up a warm friendship for Sarah, the
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arms at once. There is just come in a heap of new music and everybody is rushing to examine it, so I shall go after the rest.... The life at Maer, with its careless freedom and absence of restraint, was a great contrast to that at the Mount. There all was orderly and correct, and everyone must conform to the Doctor's views of what was right. He was extremely kind, and my mother was attached to him, but she never felt quite at ease in his presence. No one must speak so that he did not hear, and
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