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Horace DarwinThe Orchard, Huntingdon Road
History of the Orchard, Huntingdon Road
In 1885 Horace Darwin was one of the founders of the Cambridge Association for the Protection of Public Morals. In its first year the Association was responsible for shutting down eight brothels. It funded prosecutions as in the case of 132 Newmarket Road.
Ida Darwin was a campaigner on mental health for much of her life and the hospital in Fulbourn was named after her.
Emma ‘Ida’ Darwin
1891
Lundy Fryar, 34, servant, b London
Caroline Papas, 29, servant, b Lincs
Eliza Harrold, 22, servant, b Wilts
1897
1897 Jubilee presentation certificate
1901
Horace Darwin, manufacturer of scientific instruments [Horace and the household at The Orchard are described in detail from p.203 of Gwen Raverat’s Period Piece]
Emma Cecilia
Ruth Frances
Emma Nora
Cecil Claude Ferrer, nephew, 6, b London
Frances Margaret Ferrer, niece, 5, b London
Katherine D Ferrer, niece, 4, b London
Emily Bignell, 38, cook, b London
Isabella Simpson, 31, parlour maid, b Norfolk
Susanna Rogers, 27, Ladies maid, b Gloucs
Emma Saunders, 27, housemaid, b Norfolk
Ada Challacornbe, 22, second parlour maid, b Bucks
May Richardson, 21, sick nurse, b Oxon
Agnes Pullen, 22, under nurse, b Sussex
Edith Maidment, 22, second housemaid, b Wilts
Elise Vanay, 21, kitchenmaid, b Switzerland
For a detailed description of the Darwin family, see Mary Greene’s autobiography, The Joy of Remembering.
1911
Horace Darwin, 59, director of company making scientific instruments, b Kent
Emma Cecilia [Ida], 56, b London
Ruth, 27, b Cambridge
Nora, 25, b Cambridge
Minnie Purnell, 36, cook, b Somerset
Emma Edwards, 32, lady’s maid, born Hants
Lizzie Knight, 37, housemaid, b London
Margaret Munro, parlourmaid, 33, b Scotland
Ada Bull, 18, housemaid, b Northants
Cissie Potts, 16, kitchen maid, b London
Celeste Jerome, visitor, widow, 44, dressmaker, b France
The Grove Gardens:
William Bowler, 36, gardener, b Berks
Emma, 35, b Norfolk
Florence Helen Bowler, 8, b Gloucestershire
Florence attended Melbourne Place higher Grade school and was in Class Ib.
Florence Bowler, Melbourne Place Higher School (MoC)
1913
Horace Darwin MA FRS JP
Horace was the youngest of Charles and Emma Darwin’s children. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1881. The company moved its factory from Panton Street to St Tibb’s Row in 1882.
More information can be found about him here:
https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/horace-darwin-1851-1928
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Darwin
How Cambridge helped win the First World War – with some interesting lists. 1919
Murray Edwards College now occupies the former ground of The Orchard. The college web site says it was “a large house part-owned by Norah Barlow, granddaughter of Charles Darwin and a distinguished plants woman. By the time it was given to the College, the garden was somewhat overgrown, though marked by fine beech trees, fruit trees and choice shrubs, some of which still remain.”
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