Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Remarkable Connections - Darwin, FitzRoy, Hawkshaw & Wedgwood . . . .

How Penarth Dock connected Four Remarkable Victorians. - The history of Penarth Dock is usually told through coal, ships, people and engineering, yet behind the construction of our dock lies a remarkable story connecting some of the most influential people of the Victorian age. Charles Darwin, Admiral Robert FitzRoy, Sir John Hawkshaw and Josiah Wedgwood were linked by exploration, engineering, family relationships and investment. Although each is well known in a different field, Penarth Dock provides an unexpected thread that brings their stories together. This chapter explores those connections and shows how one small South Wales dock became part of a much wider Victorian story. [001] [AIX]