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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 ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.
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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Erasmus and House
In 2003, a poll showing that most Rotterdammers believed Erasmus to be the designer of the local " Erasmus Bridge " instigated the founding of the Erasmus House, dedicated to celebrating Erasmus's legacy.
* Erasmus House at Anderlecht ( Belgium )
He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.
* Erasmus Darwin House Erasmus Darwin Museum house and gardens
Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, and Great Barr Hall.
* Erasmus Darwin House
* Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield
* The “ House of Erasmus ”, built around 1450, and its medicinal garden can be visited nearby.
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.

Erasmus and home
They arrived in New Orleans on the 16th, and he was taken to the home of Charles Erasmus Fenner, an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Erasmus reported that More had taken an interest early on in giving his young wife a better education than she had previously received at home, and became a personal tutor to her in the areas of music and literature.
A major centre for Reformation and Renaissance studies, Victoria is home to international scholarly projects and holdings devoted to pre-Puritan English drama and the works of Desiderius Erasmus.
He became seriously ill and returned to his home at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, where Erasmus Darwin attended him and discovered that he was suffering from diabetes.
This was a period of great intellectual activity, the city being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, and prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".
It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward ; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".
With Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other men and women interested in art, literature and politics, Fuseli frequented the home of Joseph Johnson, a publisher and prominent figure in radical British political and intellectual life.
In 1563 major conversion and renovation work was carried out on the castle under the then owner and designer, Erasmus of Windisch-Graetz, which saw it expanded into a Renaissance style stately home with a courtyard surrounded on three sides by three-storey high, columnar arcades.
The suburb is also the home of a number of private schools, such as Erasmus School of Primary Education, St. Josephs Primary School and Scotch College, the latter being one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in the country.
Well-known institutions within Flatbush include Erasmus Hall High School, Parade Grounds, the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn College, and Ebbets Field ( demolished in 1960 ), the last Brooklyn home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as well as Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and the Mirrer Yeshiva.
* 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.
Nowadays, the traditional Erasmus exchange ( which involves travelling ) has been complemented with Virtual mobility, or Virtual Erasmus, in which students from different countries may study together without leaving their home.
Darwin's brother Erasmus thought it " the most interesting book I have ever read " and sent a copy to his old flame Miss Harriet Martineau who, at 58, was still reviewing from her home in the Lake District.
As Sandworms of Dune begins, the passengers of the no-ship Ithaca continue their nearly two-decade search for a new home world for the Bene Gesserit, while Duncan Idaho evades the tachyon net of the old couple Daniel and Marty, now known to be thinking machine leaders Omnius and Erasmus.
As had been planned previously, in September 1818 Charles joined his older brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( nicknamed " Eras ") in staying as a boarder at the Shrewsbury School, where he loathed the required rote learning, and would try to visit home when he could.
As the reaction to Darwin's theory began following publication of The Origin of Species at the end of 1859, Erasmus thought it " the most interesting book I have ever read ", and sent a copy to his old flame Harriet Martineau who at 58 was still reviewing from her home in the Lake District.
By the autumn of 1880 Erasmus was in poorly health, suffering from the effects of time and opium, in constant pain and scarcely able to leave home.
He consorted with scholars of later renown, some from his hometown, Robert Walterston, and his home country ( David Cranston of Glasgow, who died in 1512 ), but mostly they were the luminaries of the age, including Erasmus, whose reforming enthusiasms he shared, Rabelais and Reginald Pole.

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