Walter Drawbridge Crick

Walter Drawbridge Crick (15 Dec. 1857, Hanslope – 23 Dec. 1903) was an English businessman, amateur geologist and palaeontologist.[1][2] He published with Charles Darwin.[3] He was the grandfather (by his son Harry) of Francis Crick, the molecular geneticist.[4]

Born at Pinion End Farm, Hanslope,[5] Crick went into business as a shoemaker, founding a company based at St Giles Street, Northampton that was inherited by his son Walter.[6]

Crick was one of the correspondents of More Letters of Charles Darwin.

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References
  1. Thompson, Beeby (1905). "Obituary. Mr. W. D. Crick, F.G.S." Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club. 12: 134–144.
  2. Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Florida: Krieger Publishing.
  3. Ridley, Matt (2004). "Crick and Darwin's shared publication in Nature". Nature. 431 (7006): 244. Bibcode:2004Natur.431..244R. doi:10.1038/431244a. PMID 15372004.
  4. Ridley, Matt (30 July 2006). "Excerpt from Chapt. 1, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code". NY Times.
  5. Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club, vol. 12, 1905, Obituary- W. D. Crick, F.G.S., p. 134
  6. Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right, Nick Toczek, Routledge, 2016, p. 246


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