Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)

Physician and traveller. Son of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) by his second wife, Elizabeth. Studied medicine at Edinburgh but did not practise for long. Travelled through Spain, the Mediterranean, and the East, 1808–10, and kept a diary in which he reported on the plague in Smyrna and the hospitals he visited. On returning to England, practised medicine briefly in Lichfield before retiring to Sydnope Hall, Derbyshire. JP and deputy lieutenant of Derbyshire. Knighted, 1820.