Christ’s College to “Damnable Doctrine”
Leaving studies in medicine at the University of Edinburgh after the first year and fearing that his son would “ne’er do well,” his father [Robert Darwin], a practicing physician, enrolled Charles at Christ’s College (pictured left), University of Cambridge, in 1827.
His father reasoned that a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology would qualify Darwin to become financially independent as a Church of England clergyman—a guaranteed government professional with a comfortable income.
