Erasmus Darwin Barlow (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman.
[3] They had three children: Barlow was senior lecturer and honorary consultant in psychological medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1951–66), vice chairman of the Mental Health Research Fund, and a member of the scientific staff of the MRC Department of Clinical Research, University College Hospital.
He was chairman of the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering and an enthusiastic founding member of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation at Lichfield.
He was also, at various times, chairman of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company (CIC)[7][8] – the firm founded by his maternal grandfather,[9] and a director of CIC Investment Holdings, deputy chairman of George Kent Ltd and a director of Group Investors Ltd.[3] Barlow published research papers in physiology and psychiatric medicine.
[10] In 2008 the society started the Erasmus Darwin Barlow Conservation Expeditions named in his honour.