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Ida, Lady Darwin (née Farrer; 7 November 1854 – 5 July 1946) was the wife of Sir Horace Darwin, member of the Ladies Dining Society, and a co-founder in 1913 of the Central Association for the Care of the Mentally Defective (in 1921 renamed the Central Association for Mental Welfare).
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Ida was christened Emma Cecilia Farrer, the daughter of Thomas Henry Farrer (later Lord Farrer) and his wife Frances. As a young child, she loved to read Hans Andersen’s fairy tales, and identified with the main character in his story ‘Little Ida’s Flowers’. She was known as Ida for the rest of her life. Her father knew Charles Darwin, and, being a...
In 1883, when Lady Humphrey formed The Cambridge Association for the Care of Girls (CACG), Ida became an active member. The aim of the Association was to protect girls in Cambridge who were 'in trouble'. This was an early example of the University and Town working together. Ida became aware that a number of these vulnerable girls were termed ‘feebl...
In the 1960s, the need for provision dedicated to the care and support of severely mentally handicapped people in the area was recognised. The East Anglian Regional Hospital Board chose a site next to the Fulbourn Mental Hospital and building began. The Hospital was to cater for 250 residents and the aim was that the facility would enable each resi...
Ida Darwin was the wife of Horace Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, and a prominent social worker in Cambridge. She fought for the rights of the mentally disabled, founded the Cambridge Voluntary Association for Mental Welfare, and was honoured by the Ida Darwin Hospital.
22 de nov. de 2019 · Ida Darwin was the wife of Charles Darwin's son Horace and a pioneer of women's education and mental health reform in Cambridge. She founded the Ladies' Discussion Society, the Cambridge Association for the Care of the Feeble-Minded and the first outpatients' psychiatric clinic at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Darwin and Ida. Charles Darwin, 1869. The timing for the launching of Ida could not have been better. 2009 was the year when the whole world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species.
Scope and Contents. Comprises correspondence with family and friends, particularly Horace Darwin, her husband, Erasmus Darwin, Ruth Rees-Thomas and Nora Barlow, her children, Thomas Farrer, her father, and other extended members of the Farrer, Barlow and Darwin families.
28 de jan. de 2016 · A missão da viagem, que partiu da Inglaterra em 1831, era mapear a costa da América do Sul para atualizar as cartas náuticas britânicas e de quebra deixar na Patagônia três indígenas ...
28 de dez. de 2021 · The Central Association for Mental Welfare, of which Ida Darwin was vice-president, contributed to originate what is nowadays a major U.K. mental health charity called ‘MIND’. Horace Darwin as Mayor of Cambridge (1896-1897).
