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Ruth Frances Darwin CBE (20 August 1883 – 15 October 1972) was Commissioner of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and an advocate of eugenics. Career. Darwin was appointed to the Board of Control, as an unpaid member, in 1921, replacing Ellen Pinsent. She retired from the Board of Control in 1949.
Scope and Contents. The collection consists primarily of letters from Ruth Darwin to members of her family but predominantly to her sister (Emma) Nora Darwin, and correspondence and papers arising out of Ruth's work with the British Committee of the French Red Cross in France in 1917-1919.
Ruth Frances Darwin CBE (20 August 1883 – 15 October 1972) was Commissioner of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and an advocate of eugenics. Career. She was appointed to the Board of Control, as an unpaid member, in 1921, replacing Ellen Pinsent. She retired from the Board of Control in 1949.
- August 20, 1883
- October 15, 1972 (89)
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Private User
Ruth Frances Darwin, born in Cambridge on 20 August 1883, second child of Horace Darwin (1851–1928), civil engineer and manufacturer of scientific instruments, and his wife, Emma Cecilia 'Ida' (1854-1946) (née Farrer).
Ruth Frances Darwin Commander of the Order of the British Empire was Commissioner of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and an advocate of eugenics. Background She was the middle child and elder daughter of Sir Horace Darwin, through whom she was a granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin (she was born a year after ...
Horace and Ida had three children: Erasmus who was killed at Ypres in 1915; Ruth Frances; and Emma Nora. They built and made their home at ‘The Orchard’ on Huntingdon Road. According to the 1901 census, the household consisted of the family plus one cook and eight maids (including two nursemaids). The Town.
Erasmus Darwin IV (7 December 1881 – 24 April 1915) was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War. Ruth Frances Darwin (1883–1972), married Dr. William Rees-Thomas, was a notable advocate of eugenics.
