Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameRichard Buckley LITCHFIELD, 8072
Birth1832
Death1903
Spouses
Birth1843
Death1929
FatherCharles Robert DARWIN , 5939 (1809-1882)
MotherEmma WEDGWOOD , 7875 (1808-1896)
Notes for Richard Buckley LITCHFIELD
Richard Buckley Litchfield (6 January 1832, Yarpole – 11 January 1903, Cannes) was a British scholar and philanthropist.

[edit]Life

R. B. Litchfield was the only son of Captain Richard Litchfield of Cheltenham, England. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he became a friend of James Clerk Maxwell, and where he then taught mathematics. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1854, and was called to the Bar in 1863.[1]

He was a founder of the Working Men's College, London, where he worked devotedly from 1854 to 1901, being the College's Bursar, and becoming its Vice Principal between 1872 to 1875. In the mid 1850s he was editor of the College magazine.[2]

Litchfield was a fellow Working Men's College colleague of John Ruskin. He married a daughter of Charles Darwin, Henrietta Emma ('Etty') Darwin, in 1871, but there were no children from the marriage. He wrote a substantial biography of the inventor of photography, Thomas Wedgwood, which was published in the year of his death.
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