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5 unusual facts about Bernard Darwin


Bernard Darwin

Members of the Darwin family who are also buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent are: Bernard Darwin and his wife Elinor Monsell; Charles Waring Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Mary Eleanor Darwin; Henrietta Etty Darwin, later Litchfield.

Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (7 September 1876 – 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer.

Elinor Darwin

She married Bernard Darwin, the golf writer grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1906.

Herbert Wind

At Cambridge, Wind became friends with the noted British golfed writer Bernard Darwin, a grandson of Charles Darwin.

Prestwick Golf Club

Bernard Darwin, the era's leading golf writer, reported from the scene that he doubted the Open should be held ever again at Prestwick, and such has proved the case.



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