RECORD: Darwin, Francis. n.d. Abstract of Meteyard, Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815). CUL-DAR200.3.74. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
This was copied in preparation for Life and letters (1887).
Eliza Meteyard. 1871. Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815): being records of the younger Wedgwoods and their friends, etc. London.
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Group of Englishmen Meteyard 1871
p 253 R.W.D studied in Edinburgh — took his degree there?
RWD married in 1796 Ap Susan eldest D of J.W gentle sympathizing nature
260 "as he took almost as much interest in botany & zoology as his father Eras D their gardens & ground became noted for the choicest shrubs & flowers—
261 The Mount pigeons were well known
261 2 great yearly feasts to the chief med-pract
263 "Like his father, he was a great feeder, eating a goose fir his dinner as easily as other men do a partridge"
265 "Snuff-coloured cloth suit-coat, waistcoat, & breeches alike" — "gaiters of the same buttoned above the knee"
360 Mrs RWD Jy 15 1817 buried at Montford
RWD Died Nov 15 1848
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