Charle's Darwin's son: inferiority complex?

With a father that was the Father of evolutionary biology it isn't surprising that Charles Darwin's children were critical of their own intellect. 


Through my work on nineteenth century British school altases I came across Darwin's oldest son Major Leonard Darwin, soldier, politician, economist and, er, eugenicist. His multiple occupations, including his role on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, London (how I came across him), according to him, didn't quite live up to his father's and his three brothers' achievements. Major Leonard was known to openly pronounce himself to be the least intelligent of his siblings. 

He might have 'lacked' intelligence but I greatly admire the subtilty of Leonard's handlebars!

We can all sympathise with having bouts of inferiority when faced with a high achieving sibling or friend, and those of us fortunate enough to have such world-influencing parents can possibly empathise with Leonard's inferiority complex.  But let's be honest, we'd take being the son of the man whose findings changed the way people think about the world any day, whether we could live up to his genius or not; wouldn't we?