Who was the captain of the "HMS Beagle" during Charles Darwin's voyage?

Admiral Robert FitzRoy is better known as the Captain of the "HMS Beagle", the ship that carried naturalist Charles Darwin on his famous voyage. FitzRoy was born on July 5, 1805, at Ampton Hall, Suffolk, and trained at the Portsmouth based Royal Naval College, formerly the Royal Naval Academy founded in 1733. Throughout his life he had a strong sense of duty and desire to protect life, especially the lives of fellow sailors, and he was a pioneer in the development of a system of storm warnings and weather forecasts.

In 1828 FitzRoy took command of the "HMS Beagle", and three years later in 1831 he set sail on the famous journey that carried the naturalist Charles Darwin on expedition to South America and the Galapagos Islands. Both FitzRoy and Darwin wrote up the exploration of the "HMS Beagle" in a three-volume work, known as the "Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle".

Later in life FitzRoy became a vocal critic of the theory of evolution following the publication of Darwin's book "The Origin of Species" in 1859. Supporters of Darwin later attacked FitzRoy's reputation because it was recognized that statements made by the Captain of the "HMS Beagle" could do enormous damage to the theory of evolution.