Biography of Chalres Darwin
... his mother, Susannah Wedgwood, died at the age of fifty-two. Although he was young, his mother was said to have contributed to Darwin’s influence in science and nature. Charles Darwin's father, Robert Darwin, was a prosperous and prominent physician and was very large in height and weight. When Darwin was middle-aged, he was slightly more than six feet in height, but as the years passed he began to gain weight. As a young man, he had reddish-brown sideburns down to his jaw line. Darwin enjoyed walking, running, and riding on his bike and in his later years he enjoyed having novels read aloud to him. Darwin drank very little wine, and he was aid to have brown eyes with slight purple speckles. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1831, Charles Darwin took his trip around the world on HMS Beagle and in 1876, at the age of sixty-eight...