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Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS (13 May 1851 – 22 September 1928) was an English engineer specializing in the design and manufacture of precision scientific instruments. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge .
The Company was responsible for the manufacture of many commercial scientific instruments including, ‘Prof J. A. Ewing’s Seismograph’ in 1891, and in 1910 ‘Darwin’s crack extensometers for St Paul’s Cathedral’. Horace Darwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903.
Biography. Sir Horace Darwin (1851-1928), knight, civil engineer and founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, was born at Downe, Kent, on 13 May 1851, the ninth child of Charles Robert Darwin and his wife, Emma. He was tutored at home, and after gaining his BA degree at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1874 (with the accolade of ...
Horace Darwin. Horace Darwin (1851–1928) and Ida Darwin (1854–1946) had the following children: Nora Darwin, married Sir Alan Barlow . Ruth Darwin. Erasmus Darwin. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife. His brother Sir Francis Darwin is interred in the same graveyard.
Horace Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin, was first apprenticed to an engineering firm in Kent, and returned to Cambridge in 1875. Dew-Smith was an engineer, photographer and instrument maker who was at Trinity College, Cambridge with Darwin. Darwin's grandson Erasmus Darwin Barlow was later chairman.
Sir Horace Darwin 1851 - 1928. occupation: Civil engineer, Scientific instruments manufacturer. Nationality: British; English. born in: Downe, Bromley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
HORACE DARWIN. 1851—1928. It is with great regret that the Council have to record the death of Sir Horace Darwin, at Cambridge, on September 22nd. Sir Horace was born at Dover, Kent, on May 13th, 1851, and was the fifth son of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Cambridge and took his degree as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos of 1874.
