Frances Crofts Cornford was an English poet; because of the similarity of her Christian name and her husband"s, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "Federal Communication Commission" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "Federal Maritime Commission".
Background
Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another "Francis", was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856-1903), and born into the Darwin — Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.
Education
She was raised in Cambridge, among a dense social network of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and was educated privately.
Career
Her elder half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin. In 1909, Frances Darwin married Francis Cornford, a classicist and poet. They had 5 children: Helena Cornford (1913-1996).
Married Doctor Joseph L. Henderson in 1934.
John Cornford (1915–1936), a poet and Communist who was killed in the Spanish Civil War. Christopher Cornford (1917–1993), an artist and writer Hugh Wordsworth Cornford (1921-1997), medical doctor Ruth Clare (1924-1992).
Married Cecil Hall Chapman, the son of Sydney Chapman in 1947. She was the mother of Matthew Chapman She is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, where she is in the same grave as her father Sir Francis Darwin.
Her mother Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, née Crofts, is buried in Saint Andrews Church"s churchyard in Girton, Cambridgeshire.
Her late husband, Francis, was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 6 January 1943. To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train K. East.