Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin (December 12,1731 – April 18,1802) trained as a physician and wrote extensively on medicine and botany, as well as poetry. He lived in Birmingham and Lichfield, England. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society. He was a member of the Darwin-Wedgwood family, most famously including his grandson, Charles Darwin.

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December 12 - 1731 - April 18 - 1802 - Physician - Poetry - Birmingham - Lichfield - England - Lunar Society - Darwin-Wedgwood family - Charles Darwin

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He was born near at Elston Hall near Nottingham, and educated at Chesterfield School then later at St. John's College, Cambridge. He obtained his degree at Edinburgh Medical School. He settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but meeting with little success he moved in the following year to Lichfield. He practised medicine in Lichfield in Staffordshire for twenty years; George III invited him to be royal physician but he declined. In 1781 he moved to Derby, where he died suddenly on the 18th of April 1802.

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Elston Hall - Nottingham - Chesterfield School - St. John's College - Cambridge - Edinburgh Medical School - Lichfield - George III - 1781 - Derby

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