Erasmus Darwin
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Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
Erasmus Darwin c. 1792–1793, oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Darwin's House in Lichfield, now a museum dedicated to his life and work
Portrait of Erasmus Darwin, 1770, by Joseph Wright of Derby
Erasmus Darwin's coat of arms. Escutcheon: Argent, on a bend Gules cottised Vert, three escallop shells, Or. Crest: A demi-griffin segreant, Vert, holding in his claws an escallop, Or. Motto: E conchis omnia (All things out of conches/molluscs).
Robert Darwin
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Robert Waring Darwin was an English medical doctor who is today best known as the father of naturalist Charles Darwin. He was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family.
Erasmus Darwin
…Elizabeth Darwin (1763, survived 4 months) Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin William Alvey Darwin (1767, survived 19 days…
Robert Darwin, from an oil painting by James Pardon (1811–1829)
The Mount, Shrewsbury
Susannah Darwin's daughter Caroline Darwin, aged 16, 1816