Editing Charles Lapworth (section)

==Family==

He married Janet Sanderson in 1869.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The couple had five children in total. The first and last born children died during infancy; Ernest, born 22 January 1871 and died 6 February 1871,<ref>'Southern Reporter' newspaper notices on 26th Jan 1871 and 16th Feb 1871. Available on British Newspaper Archive.</ref> and Walter Sanderson Lapworth, born in 1882 and died in 1884 before his second birthday.<ref>Civil Registration birth and death indexes.</ref> The children who survived to adulthood were Arthur (born c. 1873), Herbert (born c. 1876), and Edith Matilda (born c. 1879).<ref>Birth years taken from the 1881 census - not always accurate.</ref> [[Arthur Lapworth]] became a renowned chemist and Herbert a civil engineer, engineering geologist, stratigrapher and palaeontologist.