Walter Drawbridge Crick (15 Dec. 1857,

Hanslope Hanslope is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about west northwest of Newport Pagnell, about north of Stony Stratford and north of Central Milt ...

– 23 Dec. 1903) was an English businessman, amateur geologist and palaeontologist. He published with Charles Darwin. He was the grandfather (by his son Harry) of

Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical struc ...

, the molecular geneticist. Born at Pinion End Farm, Hanslope, Crick went into business as a shoemaker, founding a company based at St Giles Street, Northampton that was inherited by his son Walter.Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right, Nick Toczek, Routledge, 2016, p. 246

References

Amateur geologists Shoemakers English businesspeople in fashion 19th-century British geologists English palaeontologists Fellows of the Geological Society of London 1857 births 1903 deaths 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-business-bio-stub