16 Facts About Francis Darwin

Francis Darwin was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin.

Francis Darwin was born at Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848.

Francis Darwin was the third son and seventh child of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood.

Francis Darwin then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, then changing to natural sciences, graduating in 1870.

Francis Darwin then went to study medicine at St George's Medical School, London, earning an MB in 1875, but did not practice medicine.

Francis Darwin worked with his father on experiments dealing with plant movements, specifically phototropism.

Francis Darwin was nominated by his father to the Linnean Society of London in 1875, and was elected as a Fellow of the Society on 2 December 1875.

Francis Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 June 1882, the same year in which his father died.

Francis Darwin edited Thomas Huxley's On the Reception of the Origin of Species.

Francis Darwin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1909.

Francis Darwin received honorary doctorates from Dublin, Liverpool, Sheffield, Brussels, St Andrews, Upsala, and Prague.

Francis Darwin married his second wife, Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, in 1883.

Francis Darwin was a Fellow and lecturer at Newnham College.

Francis Darwin was a member of the Ladies Dining Society in Cambridge.

Francis Darwin died in 1903, and was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Girton.

Francis Darwin died in 1920 and is interred in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge, opposite the grave of Sir Francis Darwin and his daughter Frances Cornford.