Background
Edward Levett Darwin was the son of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin and his wife Jane Harriet Ryle.
Edward Levett Darwin was the son of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin and his wife Jane Harriet Ryle.
He grew up at Breadsall Priory, near Derby. He was a captain in the Derby Regiment of Militia from 1856. Darwin had settled in the area where Erasmus Darwin had recommended the waters to Josiah Wedgwood.