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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.
Despite failing health as he grew older, Horace always maintained an interest in the welfare of his employees in the ‘Shop’, and he continued to support his wife in all her charitable endeavours. Sir Horace Darwin died on 22 September 1928.
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.
4 de may. de 2022 · Sir Horace Darwin, KBE FRS, a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer and a Fellow of Trinity College, 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, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.
Sir Horace Darwin 1851 - 1928. occupation: Civil engineer, Scientific instruments manufacturer. Nationality: British; English. born in: Downe, Bromley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
History of the Orchard, Huntingdon Road. In 1885 Horace Darwin was one of the founders of the Cambridge Association for the Protection of Public Morals. In its first year the Association was responsible for shutting down eight brothels. It funded prosecutions as in the case of 132 Newmarket Road.
SIR HORACE DARWIN, whose death on Sept. 22 is widely regretted, was born in 1851, the fifth son of Charles Darwin and the third of the group of brothers to become a fellow of the Royal Society....
