In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( 1804 – 1881 ), brother of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work.

A school in nearby Chasetown recently converted to Academy status and is now known as Erasmus Darwin Academy.

Stone-cast bust of Erasmus Darwin, by W. J.

* Erasmus Darwin II ( 1759 – 1799 )

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– 12 July 1536 ), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.

* December 12 – Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin ( d. 1802 )

* July 12 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher ( b. c. 1466 )

Peter, Paul, Erasmus and Nicholas and enlarged the College to 12 prebendaries, bestowing two of them to canons taken on from the Dominican convent.

Born at Prague, Joseph Wenzel was the eldest son of Prince Philip Erasmus of Liechtenstein ( 11 September 1664-13 January 1704 ) and Christina Theresa von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort ( 12 October 1665-14 April 1730 ).

And in " Ratio seu Methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam ", first published in 1518, Erasmus included the Comma in his interpretation of John 12.

GoNorth is a two-year Erasmus Mundus project with 12 member institutions of the UArctic.

* Erasmus Student exchanges of between 3 and 12 months, in which students leave their home university and follow an agreed part of their course at another university in another country.

Erasmus was born in a Dene community of the Northwest Territories to a family of 12 children.

* December 1-Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish composer ( d. 1926 )

* Erasmus Darwin ( December 7, 1881 – April 24, 1915 ) who was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War .< ref >

William Erasmus Darwin ( 27 December 18398 September 1914 ) was the first-born son of Charles and Emma Darwin, and the subject of psychological studies by his father.

On December 13, 1534, a Landtag was assembled in Treptow an der Rega, where the dukes and the nobility against the vote of Cammin bishop Erasmus von Manteuffel officially introduced Protestantism to Pomerania.

* Erasmus Darwin: Born 7 December 1881, killed in action 24 April 1915

Darwin impatiently moved his " museum " in on 31 December, astounding himself, Erasmus and the porters with the weight of his luggage containing geological specimens.

Two more leading conspirators — Ferenc Nádasdy, Chief Justice of Hungary, and Styrian governor, Count Hans Erasmus von Tattenbach — were executed ( the latter in Graz on 1 December 1671 ).

Albertus (" Bertus ") Johannes Erasmus ( born December 17, 1977 in Harare-then Salisbury ) is a Zimbabwean cricketer.

Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( 29 December 1804 – 26 August 1881 ), nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

* April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist ( b. 1731 )

* Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ) physician, botanist, philosopher, grandfather of Charles Darwin

Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ) was a physician, botanist and poet from Lichfield, whose lengthy botanical poems gave insights into medicine and natural history, and outlined an evolutionist theory that anticipated both Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his grandson Charles.

* Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), was invited to be Royal Physician by King George III, but declined.