What about Charles Darwin. Was he actually any better at doing financial investments. And >> if we could really understand the timing of his inheritances he he made along the way, we could maybe find out that he was one of the greatest investors not only amongst sort of famous geniuses but perhaps of all time.uh because he started off pretty rich and it looks as though he was, you know, he was writing mortgages, he was riding the wave of railway companies and then really importantly it looks like he flipped ...