Darwins and Wedgewoods
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Wikipedia:Darwin-Wedgwood family One of the great projects of this family was support for natural history and original research on the evidence for Wikipedia:natural selection, the basis for the theory of evolution.
Wikipedia:Josiah Wedgwood was the grandfather of Charles Darwin, the son of his daughter Susannah Wedgwood (1765–1817), who maarried Wikipedia:Robert Darwin, the father of Wikipedia:Charles Darwin. Charles married Wikipedia:Emma Wedgwood, the daughter of Josiah's son, also named Josiah Wedgwood. Charles and Emma were thus cross-cousins, from different patrilines. After Josiah senior's first business partner died, Josiah asked Wikipedia:Erasmus Darwin, father of Robert and grandfather of Charles Darwin, to help run his business. Society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, his son-in-law, also inherited from Josiah I along with Josiah's sons. He used his inheritance to fund Charles Darwin's career in natural history and the research that led to the theory of evolution. Darwin's wife Emma, like her family, was receptive to his ideas, and helped to nurse him through difficult periods of illness in his life.
