Nora Barlow

Emma Nora Barlow, Lady Barlow (née Darwin; 22 December 1885 – December 1989), was the granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Barlow began her academic career studying botany at Cambridge under Frederick Blackman, and continued her studies in the budding field of genetics under William Bateson from 1904-1906. Her primary research focus when working with Bateson was the phenomenon of herostylism within the primrose family. In later life she was one of the first Darwinian scholars, and founder of the Darwin Industry of scholarly research into her grandfather's life and discoveries. She lived to 103.

Nora, as she was known, was the daughter of the civil engineer Sir Horace Darwin and his wife The Hon. Lady Ida Darwin (née Farrer), daughter of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer. Her elder brother Erasmus was killed during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915; She also had a sister, Ruth Darwin.

She worked as a research assistant at the John Innes Institute from 1905, and studied plant genetics under William Bateson at Cambridge in 1906, then the centre for what was pioneering genetics research, and was an active member of the Cambridge University Genetics Society. Nora continued her study in genetics long past her family life, visiting the John Innes Institute every summer to observe the plants that had grown there. She was among the founders of the Genetical Society (created in 1919), and regularly attended their meetings. Throughout her career, she officially published two genetics papers on her study of the primrose flower in 1913 and 1923 which drew on her Grandfather's The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species.

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