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The Darwin family in 1841 was finding their London house increasingly cramped: both Charles and his wife Emma preferred living in the countryside, as they were disturbed by the constant noise and severe coal smoke air pollution of central London, and they had two young children, William (b. 1839) and Anne (b. 1841).
The large Georgian house was built in 1800 by Charles Darwin's father, the successful local doctor Robert Darwin.His son Charles was born there on 12 February 1809. Robert Darwin died in the house on 13 November 1848, followed by his unmarried daughters Catherine and Susan.
Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 12 February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. [20] [21] He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood).
The Darwin Trail passes through Mountfields, following the River Severn along the track used by the barge pullers, from the theatre to Charles Darwin's childhood home at The Mount. It passes through fields that Darwin explored when escaping from Shrewsbury School , which he hated.
Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the words “1.5 is dead,” referencing the critical climate threshold that the world ...
Down House, Charles Darwin's home in the village of Downe in the London Borough of Bromley Downe House, Richmond Hill , previously home of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall Down House (film) , a 2001 Russian comedy film
Two Just Stop Oil activists have defaced Charles Darwin’s grave with orange chalk in Westminster Abbey.. Police led the two protesters away after they used spray chalk to write ‘1.5 Is Dead ...
Two women have been charged with criminal damage after Charles Darwin’s grave was spray-painted in Westminster Abbey on Monday.. The Metropolitan Police said Alyson Lee, 66, of Park Grove, Derby ...