Background
Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent, in 1843.
Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent, in 1843.
She was Darwin"s third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest, Annie, died aged 10, and a second daughter, Mary, died before she was a month old. She was widowed on 11 January 1903, when Richard died in Cannes, France. He was buried in the English Cemetery, Cannes.
She also edited her mother"s private papers (Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters) (1904).
She responded to the Lady Hope Story that her father had undergone a deathbed conversion by writing an article in The Christian in 1922 saying it " no foundation whatever". She died in Burrows Hill, Gomshall, Surrey, aged 84.
An obituary was in The Times
She is buried in Street Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Downe, Kent.: 63973551: 89160341.