Samuel Galton, Jr.

Samuel Galton

Samuel John Galton, Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 - 19 June 1832), born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England. Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. He was a member of the Lunar Society and lived at Great Barr Hall. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds.^[1]

He married Lucy Barclay (1757–1817), daughter of Robert Barclay, MP, 5th of Urie. They had the eight children:

• Mary Anne Galton (1778–1856), married Lambert Schimmelpenick in 1806
• Sophia Galton (1782–1863) married Charles Brewin in 1833
• Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844) (whose son Francis Galton was also notable)
• Theodore Galton (1784–1810)
• Adele Galton (1784–1869) married John Kaye Booth, MD in 1827, dsp.
• Hubert John Barclay Galton (1789–1864)
• Ewen Cameron Galton, (1791–1800), died aged 9.
• John Howard Galton (1794–1862), father of Douglas Strutt Galton.

Galton owned 300 acres (120 ha) of land at Westhay Moor, Somerset, which he had drained, by constructing Galton's Canal.^[2]

Commemoration

Galton Bridge at Smethwick is named in his honour, and he is remembered by the Moonstones in Birmingham and a tower block in the centre of that city.

References

1. "Warley Park". English Heritage. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
2. Galton, Erasmus (1845). An Account of Improvement of a Shaking Bog at Meare in Somersetshire. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 6 (Royal Agricultural Society). pp. 182–187. Retrieved 2008-10-27.

Further reading

• Galton, Francis (1909). Memories of My Life: (2 ed.). New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. pp. 3–5.