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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.
Horace Darwin was the youngest son of Charles and Emma Darwin, and a successful entrepreneur who founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a mayor of Cambridge, and a philanthropist who supported various charities and causes.
Horace Darwin (1851-1928) was a civil engineer, founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, and a member of the Darwin family. Explore his personal and professional papers, correspondence, and memorials in various collections and records at Cambridge University Library.
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....
