Charles Darwin

Childhood and education

Charles Darwin was born in the year of 1809 in Shrewsbury. His mother Susannah died when he was eight. Charles and his brother set up a chemistry lab in their shed. At the age of 16 he went to the University of Edinburgh Medical School, because his Dad wanted him to be a doctor. In 1827 he left his medical course and enrolled an ordinary degree course. When he was 17 he met Dr Robert Grant and studied marine animals.

Job and love life

In 1828 he was invited to travel on the ship HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands. When Charles got back from his five year expedition he started his work on his evolution theory. By this time he had he married Emma Wedgewood his cousin. Emma and Charles Darwin had ten children; unfortunately three died one of TB. This made him so unhappy that he wrote a book called ‘House of lost joy’.

Later in life

When Mr Darwin was forty-four he received the royal medal from Queen Victoria, the Queen of England. By 1856 he had been working on his evolution theory for twenty years. When Charles Darwin was fifty he published a book called ‘On the origin of species by means of natural selections’ this caused uproar because some people believe that God created the humans. Sadly he died at the age of seventy-three; he was buried at Westminster Abbey.

By Ollie Catling and Sam Cork.