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    Erasmus Robert Darwin FRS (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also...
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    William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 1839 – 8 September 1914) was the first-born son, and the eldest of all the children of Charles and Emma Darwin, and the...
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    Erasmus Alvey Darwin (29 December 1804 – 26 August 1881), nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier. They...
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    The Darwin–Wedgwood family are members of two connected families, each noted for particular prominent 18th-century figures: Erasmus Darwin, a physician...
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    Erasmus Darwin MA (7 December 1881 – 24 April 1915) was an English businessman and soldier, killed in the First World War. He was the grandson of the naturalist...
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    was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family. Darwin was born in Lichfield, the son of physician Erasmus Darwin and his first wife, Mary Howard...
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  • evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert Chambers, the anonymous author of the book...
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    Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield, Staffordshire is the former home of the English poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles...
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    In 1794, Erasmus Darwin also wrote Zoonomia, another book of verse, this time dealing with human physiology. In this volume, Erasmus Darwin presents himself...
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    the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96) is a two-volume medical work by Erasmus Darwin dealing with pathology, anatomy, psychology, and the functioning of...
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  • Erasmus Darwin Barlow, FRCPsych, FZS (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Born in London in 1915,...
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    Erasmus Darwin (1839–1914) Anne Elizabeth Darwin (1841–1851) Mary Eleanor Darwin (1842) Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin (1843–1927) George Howard Darwin...
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    Erasmus Darwin, father of Robert Darwin, had long been a friend of Josiah, and she had known the family since childhood, at one point giving Erasmus Junior...
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    Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). His grandfathers Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood were both prominent abolitionists. Erasmus Darwin had...
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    edited Charles Darwin's biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, and The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, removing several...
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  • grandson of Erasmus Darwin, brother of Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin IV (1881–1915), son of Horace Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin House,...
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  • Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin IV (1881–1915), son of Horace Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin Erasmus Finx (1627–1694), aka Erasmus Francisci, German...
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    daughters: Erasmus Darwin IV (7 December 1881 – 24 April 1915) was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War. Ruth Frances Darwin (1883–1972)...
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    "lunaticks", a contemporary spelling of lunatics. Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, Bowbridge House...
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    Erasmus Darwin's theory of transmutation. The philosopher published it in the form of a detailed study Observations on the zoonomia of Erasmus Darwin...
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    ISBN 9780520236936. Burbridge, David (April 1998). "William Paley Confronts Erasmus Darwin: Natural Theology and Evolutionism in the Eighteenth Century". Science...
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    Erasmus Darwin Keyes (May 29, 1810 – October 14, 1895) was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army...
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  • Darwin of Elston (12 August 1682 — 20 November 1754) was an English lawyer, scientist and physician. He was the father of English physician Erasmus Darwin...
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    England, Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) in 1818 for horse-drawn carriages. Erasmus Darwin may have a prior claim as the inventor dating from 1758. He devised...
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  • Erasmus Darwin Hudson, (December 15, 1805 in Torringford, Connecticut – December 31, 1880 in Greenwich, Connecticut), was a physician and anti-slavery...
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  • Erasmus Darwin Academy (previously Chasetown High School, then Chasetown Specialist Sports College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form...
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    supporting extended family of Darwins and Wedgwoods was strongly Unitarian, though one of his grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin, was a freethinker, and his father...
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    Erasmus Darwin Tracy (September 22, 1810 – February 18, 1877) was a Florida state legislator. Tracy was born in Norwich, Connecticut, to Cyrus Tracy, Jr...
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  • Bernard Darwin Emma Darwin née Wedgwood (1808–1896), wife of Charles Darwin (1809–1882) Emma Darwin (novelist) (born 1964), novelist Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802)...
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  • The Life of Erasmus Darwin is the 1879 biography of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) by his grandson Charles Darwin and the German biologist Ernst Krause. Ernst...
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