Bernard Darwin
Name:
Bernard Richard Meirion DarwinCountry:
EnglandLived:
[1876-1961]. Born on Sept 7, 1876 in Downe, nr Bromley, Kent. Died on Oct 18, 1961 in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, aged 85.Original/Home Club:
Walton Heath, Woking, St George's Hill, Rye, Oxford & Cambridge GS.Occupation:
Accomplished amateur golfer, lawyer, golf & cricket writer, and authority on Charles Dickens.Turned Pro:
n/aWalker Cup player (1922). British Amateur semi-finalist (1909, '21). Captain of the Royal & Ancient GC (1934). World Golf Hall of Fame (inducted in 2005). Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (1937).
Grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, it is said that Bernard Darwin invented golf writing as we know it today. From 1907-1953 he wrote for The Times of London, his avidly read pieces always signed, "By our golf correspondent". He also wrote for the weekly magazine Country Life from 1907-1961.
Darwin graduated with a degree in law from Cambridge University, where he gained a blue in golf and captained the University team in his final year. After a few years practicing law, Darwin realised that golf was his true calling, and most especially golf journalism. Without any formal training (apart from a first-rate education at Eton College and Cambridge University), he embarked on a new path writing about golf, cricket and Charles Dickens (on whose life and work Darwin was a leading authority).
One of the true greats of the game, Ben Crenshaw, said of Darwin, "his writings have given me as much pleasure and as sound an education as anything in my golfing life. His words express closely what we feel about the game, if we have taken this game to our heart, as he did".
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