Charles Waring Darwin
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Template:Mergeinto Charles Waring Darwin (6 December 1856 – 28 June 1858)
Charles Waring Darwin was the last of Darwin’s children. He was the 10th child and the 6th boy. It was noted by Henrietta, in her biography of her mother, that the child was ‘born ‘without the full share of intelligence’. Darwin noted that even though ‘he was backward in talking & walking’ he was nevertheless ‘intelligent & observant’. Darwin feared that the propinquity of his and Emma’s lineage had contributed to his children’s constitutional weakness. A fear that finds its expression in the Origin of the Species in which Darwin rails against the ‘evil’ effects of inbreeding and lauds the good effects of crossing.
Charles Waring was to die at 18 months when he succumbed to Scarlet fever.