Bernard Darwin
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Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (September 7, 1876—18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer.
[edit] Biography
Darwin was the son of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck, his mother dying from a fever on 11 September, four days after his birth. Darwin was the first grandson of Charles Darwin (see Darwin — Wedgwood family) and was brought up by Charles and his wife Emma at their home, Down House. His younger half-sister was the poet Frances Cornford.
Darwin was educated at Eton College, and Cambridge University where he was a Cambridge Blue in golf 1895-1897 and captain in his final year.
He married the engraver Elinor Monsell in 1906. They had one son, Sir Robert Vere Darwin, and two daughters; the potter Ursula Mommens, and Nicola Mary Elizabeth Darwin.
After Cambridge, Darwin became a court lawyer. He covered golf for The Times from 1907 to 1953 and for Country Life from 1907 to 1961, the first writer ever to cover golf on a daily basis, instead of an occasional feature. He was Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1934 and was President of the Golf Club Managers' Association (then the Association of Golf Club Secretaries) from 1935 to 1958. Though mainly a golf writer [1], he also occasionally wrote on cricket.
In 2005, Darwin was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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- Bernard Darwin On Golf, ISBN 1-58574-768-8
- The Golf Courses of the British Isles
- Golf Is My Game (with Bobby Jones)
- Playing the Like
- Golf
- Green Memories
- The Happy Golfer
- James Braid
- The classics of golf original edition of the Darwin sketchbook: Portraits of golf's greatest players and other selections from Bernard Darwin's writings, 1910-1955
- Golf Between Two Wars
- Darwin on the Green
- Round with Darwin
- Every idle dream
- British golf
- British clubs
- Tee shots and others
- Batsford Golf: Green Memories
- A Friendly Round
- A round of golf jokes
- Playing the like
- Golfing by-paths
- A round of golf on the London & North Eastern Railway
- Second shots: Casual talks about golf
- W. G. Grace (Great Lives Series)
- Eton v. Harrow at Lord's
- Erasmus Darwin: Born December 7, 1881, killed in action April 24, 1915
