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title: "Darwin–Wedgwood family"
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== Coat of arms ==
These arms were granted to Reginald Darwin, of Fern, Derbyshire, for himself and certain descendants of his father, Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin, and his uncle Robert Waring Darwin (Father of Charles), on 6 March 1890. As Charles Darwin was part of the destination, they have been used in association with him, despite being granted after his death. Something similar is used by Darwin College, Cambridge.

A variant without mullets was being used by the Darwin family long before 1890. Erasmus Darwin used it with the motto E conchis omnia (All things out of shells), reflecting his belief that all life descended from one simple form. Charles' father Robert adopted the same motto, displaying it on his bookplate. Stephen Glover described in 1829 the older variant quartered with the Waring coat of arms (sable, a chevron between three storks' heads erased, argent).

== See also ==
Keynes family
Huxley family

== Notes ==

== References ==
Milner, Richard (1994). Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Naturalist. Makers of Modern Science. New York City: Facts on File, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8160-2557-2.
Freeman, Richard Broke (1982). "The Darwin family". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 17 (1): 9–21. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1982.tb02010.x.
Berra, Tim; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Shannon, Kate (September 2010). "The Galton–Darwin–Wedgwood Pedigree of H. H. Laughlin". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101 (1): 228–241. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01529.x.

== External links ==
http://www.wedgwood.org.uk/Darwin.html Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1319&viewtype=image&pageseq=6