Editing Erasmus Darwin (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Lichfield Cathedral (13) - geograph.org.uk - 7186076.jpg|thumb|Memorial in Lichfield Cathedral ]]
Darwin died suddenly on 18 April 1802, weeks after having moved to [[Breadsall Priory]], just north of [[Derby]]. The Monthly Magazine of 1802, in its Biographical Memoirs of the Late Dr. Darwin, reports that "during the last few years, Dr. Darwin was much subject to inflammation in his breast and lungs; he had a very serious attack of this disease in the course of the last Spring, from which, after repeated bleedings, by himself and a surgeon, he with great difficulty recovered."

Darwin's death, the Biographical Memoirs continues, "is variously accounted for: it is supposed to have been caused by the cold fit of an inflammatory fever. Dr. Fox, of Derby, considers the disease which occasioned it to have been [[angina pectoris]]; but Dr. Garlicke, of the same place, thinks this opinion not sufficiently well founded. Whatever was the disease, it is not improbable, surely, that the fatal event was hastened by the violent fit of passion with which he was seized in the morning."

His body is buried in [[All Saints' Church, Breadsall]].

Erasmus Darwin is commemorated on one of the [[Lunar Society Moonstones|Moonstones]], a series of monuments in [[Birmingham]].