Charles Robert Darwin. Biography
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, the Mount. He was younger of two children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin.
Darwin’s early education was conducted at Shrewsbury, first for a year at a day-school, then for seven years at Shrewsbury School under Dr Samuel Butler (1774—1839).