History of charles darwin life
History of charles darwin life and death.
12 February
Charles Darwin is born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin, physician, and Susannah Wedgwood.
Darwin's mother dies; his 3 older sisters take on maternal responsibilities.
Darwin starts at Unitarian day school.
Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder.
History of charles darwin life
He hates the school, describing it as "narrow and classical".
Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds.
That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine.
Darwin joins the Plinian Society in Edinburgh. It is around this time that Darwin meets his most influential mentor at Edinburgh, Robert Grant.
Abhorred by medicine, Darwin leaves Edinburgh without taking a degree.
Darwin's father, anxious that he does not become idle, insists that Darwin take up clerical studies in Cambridge.
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