Charles Robert Darwin was born 12 February 1809 at The Mount, the Darwin home in Shrewsbury, in the county of Shropshire. His father, Dr. Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848), was a prosperous physician and businessman; his mother was Susanna Wedgwood (1765-1817), daughter of the famous founder of the Wedgwood Pottery works. Charles was the fifth of six children, and the youngest son.
Although he did not appear to benefit from the formal education he was given in Edinburgh and at Cambridge, Charles amply made up for it with his voyage of exploration on the Beagle. Upon his return to England, he married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood on 29 January 1839 at St. Peter's Anglican Church near her home at Maer.
For a few years they lived in London, and then retired to Down House, where Charles worked and studied, with the result that eventually his ideas completely changed the way that scientists now look at the world. Charles Darwin died 19 April 1882 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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