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Charles Darwin

12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882

Milestones

12 February 1809

CD , naturalist, was born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

19 April 1882

CD , naturalist, died at his estate of Downe in Kent, which became a girls' boarding-school in 1907 and is now a museum.

Elizabeth Bowen , who was a girl at the school, was sorry to see the building revert to exclusively Darwin associations.

Bowen, Elizabeth. “The Mulberry Tree”. The Old School, edited by Graham Greene, Oxford University Press, pp. 37-51.

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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Biography

Birth and Family

12 February 1809

CD , naturalist, was born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

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