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Adm. pens. (age 22) at CAIUS, June 30, 1821. [Illeg.] s. of Robert Darling (1778), M.D., of London. B. there [Feb. 27, 1800]. ' Matric. Michs. 1822; B.A. (9th Wrangler) 1826; M.A. 1829. Fellow, 1826. Adm. ad eundem, at Oxford, 1832. Ord. deacon and priest (Ely), 1827. Jacksonian Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy, 1837-75. Rede Lecturer, 1861. President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1845-6 and 1851-2. President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1849. F.R.S., 1830. Hon. Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1838. Hon. Member (and Royal medalist) of the R.I.B.A. Lecturer on Applied Mechanics at the Govt. School of Mines, Jermyn Street, London, 1853-68. President of the British Association, 1862. Member of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1866. Adm. at Gray's Inn, Jan. 24, 1870 (age 70). Relinquished Holy Orders, by Deed Poll, Dec. 21, 1871. Inventor of the odontograph and cymagraph. A student of Architecture and Archaeology. Married, July 26, 1832, Mary Anne, dau. of Charles Humfrey, of Cambridge. Author (with J. W. Clark), The Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. Author, The Classification of Machinery in the List of the Great Exhibition of 1851; A Westminster Fabric Roll of 1253; Principles of Mechanism; Essays on the Automaton Chess-player; On the Vowel Sounds; On the Mechanism of the Larynx; On the Architecture of the Middle Ages. Died Feb. 28, 1875, at Cambridge. Father of Robert F. (1853). (Crockford; D.N.B.; Hist. Reg., 94; Gunter, Early Science in Cambridge, 88; Venn, ii. 182.)