Charles Darwin

While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR ) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks , George Fordyce , Ralph Griffiths ,...

Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

The Hogarth Press began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library. Freud's theories circulated around VW for...

Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane , Labour leader Arthur Henderson , Liberal politician Herbert Samuel , G. B. Shaw , and political psychologist Graham Wallas , the last two both Fabians. They...

This friendship was cemented during visits to Linlathen in Forfarshire, the home of Thomas Erskine , who was himself a major spiritual influence on JW . Her letters to Gurney mention meetings with Darwin

William Meteyard , EM 's father, was an army surgeon. He was an amateur classicist and antiquary and encouraged his daughter's intellectual interests. He also came to know the Darwin family through Robert Darwin ,...

KBG 's father, Samuel Conway , was a Congregational minister, who was apparently given to quoting John Stuart Mill in his sermons and found little to dispute in Darwin 's The Origin of Species.

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

The whole family of Darwins and their relations formed almost a separate society—gentle, religiously agnostic, geared to scholarship but not to worldly success—both at Cambridge, where they all lived near each other, and on visits...

RP has expressed pride in her grandmother Nora (Darwin) Barlow , editor from the manuscript of Charles Darwin 's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle", published in 1933. This was, says Padel, the...

Another great-great-grandfather was the scientist Charles Darwin . RP has written that the first time it really impinged was at school: we had to write an essay on the life of a scientist, and I...

JW , along with her two younger brothers, stayed with their uncle by marriage, the famous scientist Charles Darwin , at his country house, Downe in Kent.

Her mother, Christine, a trained biologist, was an atheist on Darwin ian grounds and given to intellectual debate with her father, a believing Christian. Neither of her parents belonged to the Communist Party.