Samuel Tertius Galton

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Samuel Tertius Galton

Samuel Tertius Galton ( - ) was a business

Business

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man and scientist

Scientist

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He was the son of Samuel "John" Galton, a prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society

Lunar Society

The Lunar Society was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent industrialists, natural philosophy and intellectuals who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England....
, and the father of Francis Galton

Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton Fellow of the Royal Society , Cousin#Half_cousins of Charles Darwin, was an England Victorian era polymath, anthropologist, Eugenics, tropical List of explorers, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, Psychometrics, and statistician....
the eminent (if somewhat eccentric) Victorian

Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
scientist. He born in the area of Duddeston

Duddeston

Duddeston is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England in the ward of Nechells. It was part of the Birmingham Duddeston until that ceased to exist in 1950....
in Birmingham

Birmingham

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. Samuel Tertius, though less distinguished, was not an exception to the rule of scientific endeavour in his family.

Galton also inherited his father's considerable business interests and quickly set about making changes - discontinuing the family's armaments business in 1815.

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Samuel Tertius Galton ( - ) was a business

Business

Scientist

Lunar Society

Francis Galton

Victorian era

Duddeston

Duddeston is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England in the ward of Nechells. It was part of the Birmingham Duddeston until that ceased to exist in 1950....
in Birmingham

Birmingham

Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
(he wrote papers on the subject) Samuel preferred to be less 'hands-on' in the running of the business than his father and spent much of his time living off the revenue of his considerable estate.

Though brought up a Quaker, Samuel converted to the Church of England

Church of England

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in 1807. In 1807 Galton married Violetta (Francis Anne Viollette) Darwin, one of the fourteen children of his father's old colleague and fellow Lunar Society member Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin , was an England physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor and poet. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers....
. Many of the 'Lunar children' grew up together and there were several such marriages. They had four daughters and three sons:

Elizabeth Anne Galton (1808-1906), married Edward Wheler
Lucy Harriot Galton (1809-1848), married James Moilliet
Millicent Adele Galton (1810-1883), married the Rev Robert Shirley Bunbury
Emma Sophia Galton (1811-1904), did not marry.
Darwin Galton (1814-1903). High Sheriff of Warwickshire
High Sheriff of Warwickshire

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in 1850.
Erasmus Galton (1815-1909)
Francis Galton
Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton Fellow of the Royal Society , Cousin#Half_cousins of Charles Darwin, was an England Victorian era polymath, anthropologist, Eugenics, tropical List of explorers, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, Psychometrics, and statistician....
(1822-1911)