The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, Margaret Elizabeth, later Keynes. n.d. Family pedigree information. CUL-DAR210.2.106. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2023. 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. The volume CUL-DAR210.2 contains letters mostly from George and Francis Darwin, concerning the Darwin Pedigree.

"Darwin, Margaret Elizabeth, 1890 Mar. 22-1974 Dec. 19. 3d child of Sir George Howard Darwin. CD's granddaughter. 1917 Married Sir Geoffrey Keynes. 4 sons, 1 daughter. 1943 wrote biography of Leonard Darwin, privately printed." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.)

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Gwen & my father = Professor Sir George Darwin KCB b. 1845 d Dec 1912. Elected Plumian

Professor of Astronomy 1883 (which he held to his death. Family consisted of Gwen b 1885 Charles b 1887 Margaret b. 1890. William 1894 d 1970

Frances' Father = Sir Francis Darwin b 1848 d 1925.

Bernard b. 1876 (mother Amy Ruck d. 1876)

Frances b 1886 (mother Ellen Wordsworth Crofts d. 1903) at Trin. as undergraduate but Fellow of Christ's 1886 Reader in botany 1888-1904. Ellen died 1903)

Honorary Fellow of Christ's 1908.

but ~~I should think~~ my brother Charles says he is best described as 'Botanist' & another of the Life (& Letters) of Charles Darwin— I think (from the DNB) he had no official University job after 1904, tho' he went on working at the Botanical Lab. & served on RS Council etc

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