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.