# Sarah Darwin

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{{short description|English botanist}}
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|birth_place = [London](/source/London), UK
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|spouse      = [Johannes Vogel](/source/Johannes_Vogel_(botanist))
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'''Sarah Catherine Darwin''' [FLS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Linnean_Society) (born 1 April 1964<ref>[Burke's Landed Gentry](/source/Burke's_Landed_Gentry): Darwin formerly of Downe</ref>) is a British [botanist](/source/botanist).

==Education and career==
Darwin earned a BSc in Botany from [Reading University](/source/Reading_University) in 1999 and a PhD from [University College London](/source/University_College_London) in 2009. Her PhD thesis was entitled ''The systematics and genetics of tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands''. Her supervisors were [Sandra Knapp](/source/Sandra_Knapp), [James Mallet](/source/James_Mallet) and [Ziheng Yang](/source/Ziheng_Yang).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/18994/1/18994.pdf|title=PhD Thesis|website=ucl.ac.uk}}</ref>

Darwin first visited the [Galapagos Islands](/source/Galapagos_Islands) in 1995 with her parents and brother Chris on holiday. She stayed behind to prepare botanical illustrations for a field guide to the Islands. She is an ambassador for the conservation charity [Galapagos Conservation Trust](/source/Galapagos_Conservation_Trust).<ref>{{cite news|title=Galapagos Conservation Trust - Ambassadors| url=http://galapagosconservation.org.uk/ambassadors/}}</ref> She wrote a foreword for the 2009 book ''Galapagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy'' by [Tui de Roy](/source/Tui_de_Roy).

In 2009, Darwin was reported in various media outlets as having "won" a "[talking to plants](/source/talking_to_plants) competition" against ten others. In the experiment, tomato plants grew the most when subjected to Darwin reading extracts from ''[The Origin of Species](/source/The_Origin_of_Species)''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/8113718.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=Darwin relative helps plants grow | date=22 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5602419/Womens-voices-make-plants-grow-faster-finds-Royal-Horticultural-Society.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625175239/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5602419/Womens-voices-make-plants-grow-faster-finds-Royal-Horticultural-Society.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=25 June 2009 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Richard | last=Alleyne | title=Women's voices 'make plants grow faster' finds Royal Horticultural Society | date=22 June 2009}}</ref>

She appeared in the 2009–10 [Dutch](/source/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands) [VPRO](/source/VPRO) television series ''[Beagle: In Darwin's wake](/source/Beagle%3A_In_Darwin's_wake)''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/talen/item/12/ |title=Beagle website |author= |date= |publisher=VPRO |accessdate=15 March 2010}}</ref> in which she, with her husband and children, along with others such as [Redmond O'Hanlon](/source/Redmond_O'Hanlon), participated in a recreation of Charles Darwin's [voyage on HMS ''Beagle''](/source/Second_voyage_of_HMS_Beagle)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8232034.stm |title=Relative recreates Darwin voyage|publisher= BBC News|date=1 September 2009}}</ref> on board of the sailing ship ''[Stad Amsterdam](/source/Stad_Amsterdam)''. She attended the [Science & Technology Summit](/source/Meet_the_Future%2C_Science_%26_Technology_Summit_2010) at the [World Forum Convention Center](/source/World_Forum_Convention_Center) in [The Hague](/source/The_Hague) on 18 November 2010, at which O'Hanlon was also a featured guest.

==Family==
Darwin is the daughter of George Erasmus Darwin, a metallurgist, and his wife Shuna (née Service). She has two older brothers; Robert George Darwin (born 1959) and the conservationist [Chris Darwin](/source/Chris_Darwin) (born 1961). She is descended from [Charles Darwin](/source/Charles_Darwin) via Charles's son [George Howard Darwin](/source/George_Howard_Darwin) (1845–1912), an astronomer, his son William Robert Darwin (1894–1970), a stockbroker and brother of the physicist Charles Galton Darwin, and his wife Sarah Monica (née Slingsby) were the parents of George Erasmus Darwin (1927–2017).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/darwin.html |title=The Genographic Project News and Publications - National Geographic |publisher=Genographic.nationalgeographic.com |accessdate=31 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310002619/https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/darwin.html |archivedate=10 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

She has been married to German botanist [Johannes Vogel](/source/Johannes_Vogel_(botanist)), former Keeper of Botany at the [Natural History Museum](/source/Natural_History_Museum%2C_London) and now Director General of the [Museum für Naturkunde](/source/Museum_f%C3%BCr_Naturkunde) in Berlin, since 2003, with whom she has two sons, Leo Erasmus Darwin Vogel (born 2003) and Josiah Algy Darwin Vogel (born 2005).

In 2005 the family, along with other descendants of Charles Darwin, including George Erasmus Darwin and Chris Darwin, were involved in counting the flowers at [Down House](/source/Down_House).<ref>{{cite news|title=Darwin family repeat flower count| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4607037.stm|publisher=BBC News|date=7 June 2005}}</ref>

{{botanist|S.C.Darwin}}

==See also==
* [Darwin–Wedgwood family](/source/Darwin%E2%80%93Wedgwood_family)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikispecies|Sarah C. Darwin}}
* [http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/blog/item/2913/ Sarah Darwin's Beagle diary]

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