Horace Darwin
Sir Horace Darwin , KBE (born May 13, 1851 at Down House in Downe , † September 29, 1928 in Cambridge ) was a British civil engineer .
biography
Horace Darwin was the fifth son of the famous naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and his wife Emma Wedgwood (1808-1896). His parents let him go to Trinity College .
Together with Albert George Dew-Smith (1848–1903) he founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1881 , which produced the electrocardiograph for Willem Einthoven .
Horace Darwin was Mayor of Cambridge in 1896/97. In 1918 he was ennobled.
On January 10, 1880, Horace Darwin married Lady Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854-1946), eldest daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer , and his second wife Maitland Mackintosh in Cambridge .
The marriage had three children:
- Erasmus (1881–1915), killed in the Second Battle of Flanders
- Ruth Frances (1883–1972) ∞ William Rees-Thomas
- Emma Nora (1885–1989) ∞ Sir Alan Barlow
literature
- MJG Cattermole and AF Wolfe: Horace Darwin's Shop: A History of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company 1878 to 1968 , Institute of Physics Publishing (1987) ISBN 0-85274-569-9
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| SURNAME | Darwin, Horace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Downe |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1928 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |