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Erasmus and Mary Howard had five children:

  • Charles Darwin (1758-1778) died from an infection while a medical student in Edinburgh
  • Erasmus Darwin (1759–1799) unmarried, suicide
  • Elizabeth Darwin, 1763 (died as an infant)
  • Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848) married Susannah Wedgwood and became the father of Charles Robert Darwin
  • William Alvey Darwin, (1767) (died as an infant)

After Mary’s death, Erasmus had two children by his children’s governess, Mary Parker:

  • Susanna Parker (1772–1856)
  • Mary Parker (1774–1859)

In 1781 Erasmus married a second time, to Elizabeth Colyer/Collier Pole, a widow. Erasmus moved to her home, in Derby, where he continued his medical practice. They had seven children:

  • Edward Darwin, (1782–1829)
  • Frances Violetta Darwin, (1783–1874); married Samuel Galton
  • Emma Georgina Elizabeth Darwin (born 1784)
  • Sir Frances Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)
  • John Darwin (1787–1865)
  • Henry Darwin (born 1789)
  • Harriot Darwin (1790–1825) married Admiral Thomas James Malling

Erasmus Darwin died 10 April 1802 at Breadsall Priory and is buried in All Saints Church in Breadsall.

Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood

Robert Waring Darwin married Susannah Wedgwood (1765-1817), daughter of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), who founded the Wedgwood pottery dynasty. Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem, in the area known as the Potteries in Staffordshire. Josiah’s wife, Sarah Wedgwood (1734-1815), was also his cousin.

Robert Darwin followed his father in becoming a physician, starting his practice in Shrewsbury.

Robert and Susannah produced six children:

  • Marianne (1798-1858) married Henry Parker
  • Caroline Sarah (1800-1888) married her cousin Josiah Wedgwood II, son of the first Josiah
  • Susan Elizabeth (called Elizabeth) (1803-1866) (unmarried)
  • Erasmus Alvey (called Ras) (1804–1881)
  • Emily Catherine (1810-1866) married Charles Langton, whose first wife had been Emily’s cousin, Charlotte Wedgwood
  • Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) married Emma Wedgwood

The Darwin and Wedgwood Heritage

Both the Darwins and Wedgwood families were educated and intelligent – they were solicitors or lawyers, physicians, poets, scientists, and inventors, giving Charles Darwin a strong heritage in both the arts and sciences. He grew up surrounded by people who read, thought, discussed, and acted upon the ideas they exchanged, and thus it can be claimed that both families contributed greatly to his genius.

Sources:

  • John Bowlby, Charles Darwin, a New Life. Norton & Company, 1990
  • Barbara and Hensleigh Wedgwood, The Wedgwood Circle 1730-1897. Eastview Editions, 1980
  • Ernst Krause, Erasmus Darwin (translated from the German by W. S. Dallas), D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1880. At the beginning of this book a 128-page “Preliminary Notice” by Charles Darwin provides a biographical sketch of Erasmus.

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