Jacques Raverat

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French painter, who married the English painter and wood engraver Gwen Darwin in 1911. She was the daughter of George Darwin and Lady Maud Darwin, née Maud du Puy and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had two daughters, Elisabeth (1916–2014), who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro and Sophie Jane (1919-2011) who married the Cambridge scholar M.G.M. Pryor and later Charles Gurney. Before moving, in 1920, to Vence in France, the couple were active members of an intellectual circle known as the "Neo-Pagans" centred round Rupert Brooke. They also moved on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, whose members included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell and Lytton Strachey. Raverat suffered from a form of multiple sclerosis and died at 12:30 AM on 6 March 1925 in Vence. In 2004, his grandson, William Pryor edited the complete correspondence between Raverat, his wife and Virginia Woolf which was published as "Virginia Woolf and the Raverats." Link to Wikipedia biography