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The Reverand William Darwin Fox (1805-1880) was an English clergyman, naturalist and cousin of Charles Darwin.
Like Charles Darwin, Fox prepared for the clergy at Cambridge University. He was also a naturalist and entomologist, particularly collecting beetles. At Cambridge, Fox and Darwin became friends, and Fox tutored his younger cousin on
natural history
He graduated from Cambridge in the winter of 1829 and took a parish on the Isle of Wight. He married twice and had sixteen children. He retired in 1873, at Sandon, and is buried
there.
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