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=== Horace Barlow ===
Horace Barlow (1921–2020) was Professor of Physiological Optics and Physiology, Berkeley, California, US (1964–73); Royal Society Research Professor, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge (1973–87).

=== John Cornford ===
John Cornford (1915–1936), was a poet and member of the International Brigades died during the Spanish Civil War. Son of Francis and Frances Cornford, see above.

=== Christopher Cornford ===
Christopher Cornford (1917–1993), was an artist and writer. Son of Francis and Frances Cornford, see above.

=== Henry Galton Darwin ===
Henry Galton Darwin (1929–1992) was a lawyer and diplomat. Son of Charles Galton Darwin.

=== Robin Darwin ===
Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin (1910–1974) was an artist. He is the son of Bernard Darwin, see above.

=== Quentin Keynes ===
Quentin Keynes (1921–2003) was a bibliophile and explorer. Son of Margaret Keynes, née Darwin, see above.

=== Richard Keynes ===
Professor Richard Darwin Keynes FRS (1919–2010) was a British physiologist. Son of Margaret Keynes, née Darwin, see above.

=== Ursula Mommens ===
Ursula Mommens (née Darwin, first married name Trevelyan) (1908–2010) was a well-known potter. Daughter of Bernard Darwin, see above. Her son by Julian Trevelyan is the movie-maker Philip Trevelyan.

=== Geoffrey Tindal-Carill-Worsley ===
Air Commodore Geoffrey Tindal-Carill-Worsley (1908–1996) was a Royal Air Force officer during the Second World War. Nephew of Charles and Ralph Tindal-Carill-Worsley.

=== Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley ===
Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley (1911–2006) was an RAF bomber pilot during the Second World War (known as Nicolas Tindal). Son of Ralph Tindal-Carill-Worsley.

=== Camilla Wedgwood ===
Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist, was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (see above).

=== Cicely Veronica (CV) Wedgwood ===
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), historian. Daughter of Ralph Wedgwood

== The seventh generation ==

=== Martin Thomas Barlow ===
Martin T. Barlow (born 1953) is a mathematician; son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow.

=== Phyllida Barlow ===
Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023) was a sculptor and art academic; daughter of Erasmus Darwin Barlow.

=== Matthew Chapman ===
Matthew Chapman (born 1950), screenwriter, author, grandson of Frances Cornford, see above.

=== Adam Cornford ===
Adam Cornford (born 1950), is a poet and essayist. Son of Christopher Cornford, see above.

=== Chris Darwin ===
Chris Darwin (born 1961), conservationist and adventurer, son of George Erasmus Darwin, see above, and brother of Sarah Darwin and Robert Darwin, see below.

=== Emma Darwin ===
Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist, granddaughter of Charles Galton Darwin, see above.

=== Sarah Darwin ===
Sarah Darwin (born 1964), botanist, daughter of George Erasmus Darwin, see above, and sister of Chris Darwin and Robert Darwin, see above.

=== Randal Keynes ===
Randal Keynes (1948–2023), conservationist and author, son of Richard Keynes, see above.

=== Simon Keynes ===
Simon Keynes (born 1952), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, son of Richard Keynes, see above, and brother of Randal Keynes, see above.

=== Hugh Massingberd ===
Hugh Massingberd (1947–2007) was an obituaries editor for The Daily Telegraph, a journalist and the author of many books on genealogy and architectural history. He was the great-grandson of Emily Langton Massingberd, and the great-great-grandson of Charlotte Langton (née Wedgwood), sister of Emma Darwin (Charles Darwin's wife) and granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.

=== Ruth Padel ===
Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet, granddaughter of Sir Alan and Lady (Nora) Barlow (née Darwin), see above.

=== R. Sebastian 'Bas' Pease ===
R. Sebastian 'Bas' Pease (1922–2004), physicist, Director of Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion (1968–1981), manager of the British chapter of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, grandson of the fourth Josiah Wedgwood (see above). His sister, Jocelyn Richenda 'Chenda' Gammell Pease (1925–2003), married Andrew Huxley.

=== Lucy Rawlinson ===
Lucy Rawlinson (née Pryor) (born 1948), painter (as Lucy Raverat), granddaughter of Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), see above.

=== Anthony Tindal ===
Managing director of Tindal wine merchant and youngest son of Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley. Father of Harriet, William and Henry Tindal. Lives in Wicklow Ireland.

== The eighth generation ==

=== Ralph Wedgwood ===
Ralph Wedgwood (born 1964), philosopher, great-grandson of Ralph L. Wedgwood.

=== Anna Raverat ===
Anna Raverat (born 1969), author, daughter of Lucy Rawlinson.

=== Francis Hoar ===
Francis Hoar (born 1977), barrister (including in Erlam & Ors v Rahman & Anor and the judicial review brought by Simon Dolan against the UK government's 'lockdown' regulations). Son of Jacqueline (née Tindal) and grandson of Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley, nephew of Anthony Tindal.

=== Eddie Peake ===
Eddie Peake (born 1981), contemporary artist, son of Phyllida Barlow.

=== Soumaya Keynes ===
Soumaya Keynes (born 1989), economist and journalist, daughter of Randal Keynes.

=== Skandar Keynes ===
Skandar Keynes (born 1991), political advisor and former actor, played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, son of Randal Keynes.

== Intermarriage ==
There was a notable history of intermarriage within the family. During the period being discussed, Josiah Wedgwood married his third cousin Sarah Wedgwood; Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood; his sister, Caroline Darwin, married Emma's brother (and Caroline's first cousin), Josiah Wedgwood III. There were other instances of cousin marriage as well. Cousin marriage was not uncommon in Britain during the 19th century though why is debated: poorer communications, keeping wealth within the family, more opportunity of evaluating a relative of the opposite sex as a suitable marriage partner (unmarried young women of the upper and upper middle classes were closely chaperoned when meeting men outside the family during the 19th century), more security for the woman as she would not be leaving her family (though legal rights for married women increased during the century, as a rule her property became his and she had little legal recourse if he chose to abuse her).