Robert Darwin

Robert Darwin

Dr Robert Waring Darwin, F.R.S. (30 May 1766 – 13 November 1848) was an English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was a member of the influential Darwin-Wedgwood family.

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