Walter Drawbridge Crick

{{Short description|English businessman, amateur geologist and palaeontologist}}

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Walter Drawbridge Crick (15 December 1857, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire – 23 December 1903) was an English businessman, amateur geologist and palaeontologist.{{cite journal|author=Thompson, Beeby|title=Obituary. Mr. W. D. Crick, F.G.S.|journal=Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club|year=1905|volume=12|pages=134–144|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJYPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA134}}Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Florida: Krieger Publishing.

The last publication by Charles Darwin in his lifetime was about the dispersal of freshwater bivalves, in which Darwin describes, and quotes, the observations of Mr. W. D. Crick of Northampton.Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 25 (6 April 1882): 529-530).{{cite journal|title=Crick and Darwin's shared publication in Nature|author=Ridley, Matt|authorlink=Matt Ridley|journal=Nature|year=2004|volume=431|issue=7006|pages=244|doi=10.1038/431244a|pmid=15372004|bibcode=2004Natur.431..244R|doi-access=free}} Crick had first written to Darwin on 18 February 1882, and then wrote four more letters to Darwin up to 24 March 1882. Darwin wrote letters to Crick on 10 March 1882 and 26 March 1882. In the latter, Darwin mentions the letter he has written for publication in the journal Nature. These letters can be found in the Darwin Correspondence Project.

Born at Pinion End Farm, Hanslope,Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club, vol. 12, 1905, Obituary- W. D. Crick, F.G.S., p. 134 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 W. D. Crick was the grandfather (by his son Harry) of Francis Crick, the molecular geneticist.{{cite news|author=Ridley, Matt|title=Excerpt from Chapt. 1, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code|newspaper=NY Times|date=30 July 2006|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/chapters/0730-1st-ridl.html?_r=0}}

Crick was one of the correspondents of More Letters of Charles Darwin.