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Violetta Harriot Darwin

1826–80

Daughter of Francis Sacheverel Darwin and Jane Harriett Darwin. Lived with her sister Ann Eliza Thomasine Darwin in Derby in 1871. Book illustrator and member of the Anastatic Drawing Society, the purpose of which was to delineate the remains of antiquity.

Sources

Anastatic Drawing Society (1858): iii and vi

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/3569/56/11)

Darwin pedigree

Bibliography

Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]

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