Erasmus Darwin
1881–1915
Son of Horace and Ida Darwin. BA, Cambridge, 1904. Became a director of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company (his father’s company) in 1903. Worked for Mather and Platt, Manchester, then Bolckow and Vaughan, Middlesbrough. Joined the army in September 1914; killed in action, April 1915.
Sources
Cattermole and Wolfe 1987
The Times, 30 April 1915, p. 7
Bibliography
Cattermole, Michael J. G. and Wolfe, Arthur F. 1987. Horace Darwin’s shop: a history of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company 1878 to 1968. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger.
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