- Bernard Darwin
Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (
September 7 1876 —18 October 1961 ) a grandson of the British naturalistCharles Darwin , was agolf writer and high-standardamateur golfer.Biography
Darwin was the son of
Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck, his mother dying from a fever on11 September , four days after his birth. He was the first grandson ofCharles Darwin (seeDarwin — Wedgwood family ), and was brought up by Charles and his wife Emma at their home,Down House . His younger half-sister was the poetFrances Cornford .Darwin was educated at
Eton College , and graduated inlaw from the Cambridge University, where he was aCambridge Blue in golf 1895-1897, and team captain in his final year.Darwin married the engraver
Elinor Monsell in 1906. They had one son, SirRobert Vere Darwin , and two daughters; the potterUrsula Mommens , and Nicola Mary Elizabeth Darwin.After Cambridge, Darwin became a court
lawyer , but did not particularly enjoy that career, and gradually moved intojournalism , despite having no formal training. 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 played the game at an excellent level himself well into middle age, and competed in the
British Amateur Championship on several occasions, with his best results being semi-final appearances in 1909 and 1921. In 1922, while in theUnited States to report on the firstWalker Cup amateur teams match between Britain and Ireland and the U.S., and also appointed as non-playing captain, Darwin was pressed into service at the last minute as a player, when one of the British team members, Robert Harris, was unable to play. He lost his team match, but won his singles match.He was Captain of The
Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1934, and was President of theGolf Club Managers' Association (then the Association of Golf Club Secretaries) from 1933 to 1934 and then again from 1955 to 1958. Though mainly a golf writer [http://www.hickorygolfers.com/notes.php#darwin] , he also occasionally wrote oncricket .In 2005, Darwin was elected to the
World Golf Hall of Fame , in the Lifetime Achievement category.Bibliography
*"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 "External links
* [http://www.golfonline.com/golfonline/features/history/article/0,17742,467820,00.html Profile at golfonline.com]
* [http://www.hickorygolfers.com/notes.php#darwin Articles by Bernard Darwin]
* [http://www.hickorygolfers.com/dublincore/dckeyword.php?dc_searchstring=darwin SoHG Archives]
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