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