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yclbritain: John Cornford was one of the first British volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Cambridge on 27 December 1915, to Francis, a Trinity College classics professor, and Frances Cornford, a renowned poet and granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
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adzebill: Incidentally Francis Cornford married Darwin's granddaughter, who was named Frances, so amongst the rest of the family Francis and Frances went by their initials: FMC and FCC.
MBudha: A Fragment of Empedocles'
by Frances Darwin Cornford, (1886 – 1960)
I heard a thrush sing in the flowering may,
All in the morning cool,
Whilst Joan and Jack ran to the river to play
And found a silvery salmon in a pool.
DavidCranmerUn1: Joseph L. Henderson - Wikipedia
In 1934, he married Helena Cornford, a daughter of Francis Cornford and Frances (née Darwin), herself granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She was 10 years younger than he but predeceased him by 13 years.
SalisburyMuseum: 18 Nov 7.30pm: William Pryor, direct descendent of Charles Darwin and Gwen Raverat's grandson, will talk about how Darwin genes helped cousins Gwen Raverat, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frances Cornford record the melancholy and humanity of their zeitgeist.
Details on website.
SalisburyMuseum: Nov 18 7.30pm, William Pryor - direct descendent of Charles Darwin, grandson of Gwen Raverat – will look at how his family's Darwin genes helped Gwen and cousins Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frances Cornford record the melancholy and humanity of their zeitgeist. Details on website.
tomroper: Francis Darwin and Frances Cornford (there are supposed to be other Darwins, but I couldn’t find them)
AlisonStockham: Stumbled across the Ascension Parish burial ground in Cambridge today. A wonderful peaceful place where many notable academics and non conformist are buried. Including Frances Cornford Darwin, granddaughter of Charles and a poet.
cldsnsn: I have been out, to know again
The lovely lakes of muddy rain
That cart-tracks hold;
The intellectual branches, high
In gray oases of the sky;
The uncaring cold.
And what distortion can withstand
The sanity of winter land?
- "After A Fever," Frances Darwin Cornford
last_of_england: Headstones lettered by Gill to the Darwin family in the Ascension burial ground, Cambridge including Erasmus Darwin, killed at Ypres. The poet Frances Cornford and the philanthropist Ida Darwin were added after Gill's death in the same lettering. It isn't Gill Sans I don't think.
Himmapaan: 'Remember this before your hour is flown;
O you, who are so glorious, beware!
Your youth is like a water-wetted stone,
bright with a beauty that is not its own.'
Frances Cornford, poet (granddaughter of Charles Darwin)
From 'Susan to Diana,
Villanelle'
MametAbuShaheen: The ragworts, growing up so straight,
Are emperors who stand in state,
And march about, so proud and bold,
In crowns of fairy-story gold.
The Ragwort
Frances Darwin Cornford
Francis Darwin Cornford (1886-1960) is the granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.
ACarpenDigital: Caroline Jebb, Ida Darwin & Frances Cornford all rest here along with their husbands Richard, Horace, & Francis.
ericus_rubrum: Frances Crofts Darwin (Cornford) in 1886. She married Francis Cornford (1874-1943) in 1909. Her first book of poems (as "F.C.D"), The Holtbury Idyll, was published in 1908. This was followed by Poems (1910) and Spring Morning (1915).
valkenburgh: A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
for the long littleness of life.
- Frances Darwin Cornford
freemonotheist: Childhood, by Frances Cornford (granddaughter of Charles Darwin)
last_of_england: Francis Darwin & Francis Cornford by Eric Gill, Ascension burial ground, Cambridge. Francis Darwin, third son of Charles Darwin, naturalist, pioneer in work on plant movement. Frances Cornford, poet, daughter of Francis Darwin. Eric Gill, probably the finest stone mason of C20.
billadairmusic: Poem for the Day - The Guitarist Tunes Up by Frances Darwin Cornford
