David Suzuki
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
Erasmus Darwin
English physician (1731-1802)
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
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Robert Waring Darwin of Elston
Susanna Darwin
John Darwin
William Alvey Darwin
Ann Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin
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Mary Howard
Mary Parker
Lucy Swift
Elizabeth Colyear
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Robert Darwin
Francis Sacheverel Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin
William Alvey Darwin
Edward Darwin
Frances Anne Violetta Darwin
Emma Georgina Elizabeth Darwin
John Darwin
Henry Darwin
Harriet Darwin
Mary Parker
Susanna Parker
Lucy Swift
About the Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.
He was a member of the Darwin-Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.
He turned down an invitation from George III to become Physician to the King.