Life
She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Ellen Crofts Wordsworth, born into the Darwin — Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin. She was raised in Cambridge, among a dense social network of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and was educated privately.
In 1909, Frances Darwin married Francis Cornford, a classicist and poet. They had 5 children:
- Helena (b. 1913)
- John (1915–1936), a poet and Communist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
- Christopher (1917–1993), an artist and writer
- Clare, who became the mother of Matthew Chapman
- Hugh
She is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, where she is in the same grave as her father Sir Francis Darwin. Her late husband, Francis, was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 6 January 1943, and his ashes are interred in the same grave.
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