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Sir George Howard Darwin, KCB FRS FRSE (9 July 1845 – 7 December 1912) was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. Biography [ edit ] George H. Darwin was born at Down House , Kent, the fifth child of biologist Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin .
Sir George Howard Darwin was the second son of Charles Darwin. He was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University in 1883. His principal work was on the subject of tides, on which he became the leading authority, and on other physical questions connected with the relation of the earth and moon.
Son of Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist; geologist; originator of the theory of natural selection.,Darwin developed his theory of the tidal evolution of the earth–moon system and relationship. By the 1890's he was recognized as the world's leading authority on the tides. In 1924, Sir Harold Jeffreys refrerred to Sir George Howard Darwin, as the ‘Father of Modern Geophysics and Cosmogony’.
The portrait is by Sir Joshua Reynolds c1774 and a copy was made by James Northcote, assistant to Reynolds. It was said of George Howard "that he was a man universally esteemed, highly bred and a gallant soldier; but he owed his military elevation and employment more perhaps to Royal favour than to any distinguished talents of professional services.”
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The 1559 return is to testify that we, the free men of the borough of Thomas Langton, knight, baron of Newton ... have elected Sir George Howard and Richard Chetwode Esquire, with the assent of the burgesses, to Parliament.The return was signed by Sir Ambrose Cave, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and by William Fleetwood I, the ‘steward of the said borough’.
