1818 Darwin's Shrewsbury School is a photograph by Paul D Stewart which was uploaded on May 1st, 2013.
1818 Darwin's Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School. Lithograph copy of drawing by P. Browne circa 1833, dedicated to the school's headmaster, Venerable Archdeacon Samuel Butler.... more
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1818 Darwin's Shrewsbury School
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Shrewsbury School. Lithograph copy of drawing by P. Browne circa 1833, dedicated to the school's headmaster, Venerable Archdeacon Samuel Butler. Darwin did not have particularly fond memories of this school and did badly. He says in his autobiography (1887)
othing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical". Dr. Samuel Butler publically rebuked him for for wasting his time on such "useless subjects" as Chemistry and, "he called me very unjustly a 'poco curante' and as I did not understand what he meant, it seemed to me a fearful reproach". Today there is a large statue of Darwin outside the entrance of the school (centre arch here)."
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