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Charles Darwin, carbon-print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Charles Darwin’s parents were Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.12
His father, Robert Waring Darwin, was a society doctor, while his mother, Susannah Wedgwood, was the daughter of the prominent Unitarian pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood. Charles Darwin was the couple's fifth child.123