Charles darwin early life events

12 February 1809

Charles Darwin is born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin, physician, and Susannah Wedgwood.  

1817

Darwin's mother dies; his 3 older sisters take on maternal responsibilities.

Darwin starts at Unitarian day school. 

1818-25

Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder. He hates the school, describing it as "narrow and classical".  

1825

Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds.

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That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine.  

1826

Darwin joins the Plinian Society in Edinburgh. It is around this time that Darwin meets his most influential mentor at Edinburgh, Robert Grant.

1827

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 st