1731 - Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-
Trent, England,on the 12th of August, the youngest of 7 children
of Robert Darwin of Elston a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth
Hill. He was educated at Chesterfield School, then later at St
John's College, Cambridge. Obtained his medical education at
Edinburgh Medical School. 1756 - Darwin settled as a physician
at Nottingham. 1757 - He married Mary Howard and they had four
sons and one daughter. Darwin formed the Lichfield Botanical
Society. 1783-1785 - He wrote "A System of Vegetables". 1787 -
Wrote The Families of Plants. 1794-1796 - Wrote "Zoonomia, or
the Laws of Organic Life". 1802 - Darwin died on the 18th of
April and was buried in All Saints Church, Breadsall. Erasmus
Darwin is commemorated on one of the Moonstones; a series of
monuments in Birmingham. Grandfather of Charles Darwin This page
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