Horace Darwin
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Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS (13 May 1851 - 29 September 1928), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer. Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, 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. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885 and was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897. He was a fellow of Trinity College, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903. He was knighted in 1918. Darwin married Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer in January 1880, and they had one son and two daughters:
His family home, "the Orchard", in Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, is now the site of New Hall. External linksImage:Nuvola apps kcmsystem.svgThis article about a UK engineer, inventor or industrial designer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
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