Henrietta Litchfield
Daughter of Charles Darwin
About Henrietta Litchfield
Lived 1843 – 1927 (aged 84).
Henrietta Emma Litchfield (née Darwin; 25 September 1843 – 17 December 1927 ) was the daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. She was also nicknamed Etty.
Henrietta was born at Down House, Downe, Kent, in 1843. She was Darwin's third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest, Annie, died aged 10, and a second daughter, Mary, died before she was a month old.
On 31 August 1871, she married Richard Buckley Litchfield, the couple had no children. She was widowed on 11 January 1903, when Richard died in Cannes, France;
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Who was Henrietta Litchfield?
daughter of Charles Darwin (1843-1927)
When was Henrietta Litchfield born?
Henrietta Litchfield was born on 25 September 1843 in Down House.
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Henrietta Litchfield died on 17 December 1927.
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