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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 subject of psychological studies by his father.
Erasmus Darwin (born Dec. 12, 1731, Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died April 18, 1802, Breadsall Priory, Derby, Derbyshire) was a British physician, poet, and botanist noted for his republican politics and materialistic theory of evolution.
One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, [2] inventor, and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life .
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 subject of psychological studies by his father.
William Darwin was born 27 December 1839 and lived nearly three years in Upper Gower Street, London, before the family moved to Down House in September 1842. William was unique in many ways, first, he is the only person photographed with Darwin, so far as the surviving photographs reveal.
WILLIAM ERASMUS DARWIN, the eldest child of Charles Darwin, was born December 27, 1839, at 12 Upper Gower Street, where his father settled on his marriage with Emma Wedgwood. The house has now lost all individuality, being swallowed up in a block of buildings for the employés of Shoolbred.
William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914) was born on 27 December 1839, the son of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was educated at Rugby before entering Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1858 (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1889), and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1861.
