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three years, Penelope one year, Mary herself lived to be thirty, his son Charles died at 

 48 years, his daughter Frances lived six years and his son Thomas only a few months. 

 'The Howard lino lias been solely preserved through the one child of Mary, Robert 

 Waring Darwin, that survived to have children, and through her brother's child, Mary 

 Ann Howard, who married Sir Robert Wilnibt of Osmaston. In both these lines there 

 has been noteworthy achievement. 



I have filled in at the bottom of the pedigree two connections of some interest, namely, 

 first the pedigree of the Earles of Heydon (see Plates LXIV to LXVI) as far as known 

 to me, and secondly a pedigree showing how the Saeheverells, through the Warings, link 

 Darwins, Poles and Howards together. 1 t has been suggested that Erasmus Darwin met 

 Mrs Pole, his second wife, solely as a medical attendant. T think there was a recognised 

 Sacheverell relationship. In the first place Charles Howard, grandfather of Dr Erasmus 

 Darwin's wife, made Mary Sacheverell, the wife of the famous Dr Henry Sacheverell, an 

 executrix of his will. This lady was the sister of Edward Wilson, a former bailiff and 

 (1687) mayor of Lichfield, and is said to have been a first cousin of Charles Howard's wife, 

 .Mary Bromley. She first married George Sacheverell, High Sheriff of Derbyshire, 1709, 

 and secondly his distant relative, the famous Dr Henry Sacheverell. Elizabeth Collier's 

 first husband, Edward Sacheverell Pole, was a son of Elizabeth Sacheverell of Morley. 

 Elizabeth Sacheverell and Erasmus Darwin were distant cousins by common descent 

 from Robert Waring, who died in 1662. Thus Erasmus Darwin probably appears as 

 medical adviser to the Poles owing to the Sacheverell or Waring relationship, and in 

 marrying Mrs Pole as his second wife, he was linking himself to a family already con- 

 nected by marriage with both Warings and Howards. I am inclined to take the view 

 that Erasmus Darwin gave the name of Francis Sacheverell to his second son by 

 Elizabeth Pole, not after her first husband, but after the family, which itself dying 

 out, had yet linked by intermarriages Darwins, Wilmots, Poles, Howards and Warings. 



Edward, Emma and Yioletta Darwin (mother of Francis (ialton, on the right), 

 children of Erasmus and Elizabeth Darwin, Derby, 1800. From a picture 

 in the possession of Mr \Vlieler (ialton at Claverdon. 



CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PHESS. 



