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Dr
Robert Waring Darwin,
F.R.S. (
30 May,
1766 -
13 November,
1848) was a
Shrewsbury-based
medical doctor, today best known as the father of the naturalist
Charles Darwin.
Biography
Darwin was born in
Lichfield in 1766, the son of
Erasmus Darwin and his first wife Mary Howard. He was named after his uncle,
Robert Waring Darwin of Elston (
1724-
1816), a
bachelor. His mother died in
1770 and Mary Parker, the
governess hired to look after him became his father's mistress and bore Erasmus two illegitimate daughters.
Darwin studied medicine at the
University of Leiden, and took his MD from the
University of Edinburgh in
1786, when he was only 20. In Edinburgh he studied under several leading scholars, including
John Walker. He held his experience in Edinburgh in such high regard that he sent his son Charles to study there.
Family
In
18 April 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the potter
Josiah Wedgwood at in St Marylebone,
Middlesex, and they'd six children:
He was elected as a
Fellow of the Royal Society on
21st February 1788.
Advice
He cautioned his son against voyaging on the
Beagle, but was persuaded otherwise. A large man of 6'2", he reportedly stopped weighing himself when he weighed 24 stone (336 lbs). 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.
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