Author Darwin Florence Henrietta Fisher Lady

Florence Henrietta, Lady Darwin, (née Fisher, 1863 (or 1864) – 5 March 1920), was an English playwright. Florence Henrietta Fisher was born in Kensington, London, the daughter of Herbert William Fisher (1826-1903), author of Considerations on the Origin of the American War and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson (1841-1916). Florence's brother was the MP Herbert Fisher and her sister Adeline Maria Fisher was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Lady Darwin was also a first cousin of writer Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell. She married first Frederic William Maitland (1850 - 1906), jurist and historian, and they had two daughters Ermengard and Fredegond. Fredegond was a poet who married the economist Gerald Frank Shove. On 3 March 1913 Florence became the third wife of Sir Francis Darwin, the twice-widowed botanist son of Charles Darwin. He was also a second cousin once removed of her sister's husband Ralph Vaughan Williams, Josiah Wedgwood being their shared ancest