For the novelist Emma Darwin, see Emma Darwin (novelist).
Emma Darwin
Darwin in 1840
Born
Emma Wedgwood
(1808-05-02)2 May 1808
Maer, Staffordshire, England
Died
2 October 1896(1896-10-02) (aged 88)
Bromley, Kent, England
Resting place
St Mary's Church, Downe
Spouse
Charles Darwin
(m. 1839; died 1882)
Children
10, including William, Annie, Henrietta, George, Francis, Leonard and Horace
Parent(s)
Josiah Wedgwood II Elizabeth (Bessie) Allen
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
EmmaDarwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on...
Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 – 17 December 1927) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Henrietta was...
Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/ DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, widely...
Charles Darwin and EmmaDarwin. George H. Darwin was born at Down House, Kent, the fifth child of biologist Charles Darwin and EmmaDarwin. From the age of...
Anne Elizabeth Darwin (2 March 1841 – 23 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and EmmaDarwin. In 1849, Anne caught scarlet...
William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 1839 – 8 September 1914) was the first-born son, and the eldest of all the children of Charles and EmmaDarwin, and the subject...
religion. Following Darwin's marriage to Emma Wedgwood in January 1839, they shared discussions about Christianity for several years, Emma's views being Unitarian...
Cambridge. Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, and the youngest...
1st Baron Farrer. Erasmus was Charles and EmmaDarwin's second grandson after the birth of Bernard Darwin 5 years earlier. Charles wrote to Horace to...
talked about in the extended family circles. Emma Wedgwood - a niece and a future daughter-in-law of Dr. Darwin - was once horrified at Caroline expressing...
Peter Brent writes in his biography of Darwin, Darwin: A Man of Enlarged Curiosity, that Charles and EmmaDarwin's "ties to each other were linked to childhood...
in the costume drama biopic Creation, in which she played EmmaDarwin, wife of Charles Darwin, opposite her real-life husband Paul Bettany. Set during...
foundation of the Darwin Industry. Further volumes of letters followed - More Letters of Charles Darwin in 1903. Charles's wife EmmaDarwin's correspondence...
Horace Darwin, youngest son of Charles and EmmaDarwin, at St Mary's, Bryanston Square. The couple had a son and two daughters: Erasmus Darwin IV (7 December...
Erasmus may also have proposed to Emma Wedgewood during this period. Emma later married Charles, becoming EmmaDarwin. In May 1834 Charles got a letter...
southern outskirts of London where Darwin and members of his family lived from 1842 until the death of his wife, EmmaDarwin, in 1896. In 1909, more than 400...
"one of the best biographies ever written". In the Darwin letters trilogy it was followed by EmmaDarwin: A Century of Family Letters (1905/1915) R. B. Freeman...
Between 1873 and 1882, the life and work of Charles Darwin from Insectivorous Plants to Worms continued with investigations into carnivorous and climbing...
Amnesty International Worker Tough Love DI Karen Irving TV film Darwin's Daughter EmmaDarwin TV film 2004 Carrie's War Older Carrie TV film May 33rd Jenny...
Mirren, The Infiltrator (1995) with Oliver Platt and Carrington (1995) with Emma Thompson, where she played writer Frances Partridge. In April 1996, she got...
been built, one named after Mary Sidney (completed 2006), and one after EmmaDarwin (completed 2011). Further additions to the site have been made: an indoor...
days after his birth. He was the first grandson of Charles and EmmaDarwin (see Darwin–Wedgwood family), and was brought up by them at their home, Down...