Background
He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
Sophia Katherine Darwin (born in Düsseldorf between 1961 and 1963), mathematician
Emma L. Darwin (born 1964) - novelist
Carola Frances Darwin (born 1967), opera singer
Darwin was called to the Bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1953. He served as assistant Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office 1954-1960 and again 1963-1967, at which time he was one of the three drafters of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, being flown to Moscow in July 1963 to advise Lord Hailsham on the drafting when negotiations were successful. Between 1960 and 1963 he was Legal Adviser to the British Embassy in Bonn, West Germany.
He was then Legal Counsellor to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, New York 1967-1970, before returning to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 1970-1973.
He then worked as Director-General Legal Secretariat European Communities Brussels 1973-1976. He was Second Legal Adviser Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1984-1989, when he retired.
Darwin died in London on 17 September 1992. At the time of his death he was leading a group examining legal issues connected with the former Yugoslavia.
He played a major role in the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place from 1973 through 1982, and was a member of the Preparatory Commission after 1982.