The Life of Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809, the son of Robert Waring Darwin. Darwin was the fifth out of seven children of a wealthy English family. Darwin's mother died in July 1817, when he was about 8 years old.
Darwin never did well in school. Darwin attended school at Shrewsbury from 1818 to 1825. Darwin was not doing well in school so his father took him out in 1825 and sent him to Edinburgh University with his brother to study medicine.
After two years at Edinburgh he went to Cambridge to become a clergyman because he was not interested in being a…