The Ancestry of Francis Gallon 49 



and she studied history and literature of every kind to educate her 

 children. She brought the physique of the Barclays and Cameron s, 

 and something of the courtly bearing of the Stuarts, and the ability of 

 their greater ancestors into the Galton stock. Samuel Galton himself 

 contributed determination, industry and a strong element of Quaker 

 stubbornness but at the same time wide public and social sympathies, 

 and a distinct scientific bent. Elizabeth Collier of more slender figure 

 than Lucy Barclay was not behind her in beauty. She supplied an 

 artistic instinct, a joyousness in life, an appreciation of form and 

 expression which are less usual among the Society of Friends ; in her 

 ancestry we trace in addition both love of adventure and love of 

 learning. Arid last, but not least, we have Erasmus Darwin, who 

 presented his descendants with that great gift, the scientific imagina- 

 tion the match which may light a strong fire if the solid fuel of other 

 characters be provided. 



Before we pass to the children of Samuel Galton the second, a 

 word may be added here about the Galton houses in Birmingham and 

 elsewhere (see Plate XXIX). We have already noted the partnership 

 of the Farmers and Galtons (John and Samuel) originating in Bristol. 

 When John went at first to Birmingham he took a lease of Duddeston, 

 and this house at his death was taken over by his brother Samuel, and 

 passed in 1799 to his nephew Samuel the second (see Plate XXX). 

 He enlarged it in 1800 and went to reside there in 1801. Samuel soon 

 after his marriage had bought a house in Five Ways, Birmingham, 

 and added the next house to it. But in 1785 he went to live at Great 

 Barr 1 , a large country house about four miles out of Birmingham, 

 spending the winter in various houses in Birmingham. 



In 1702 the shop of Joseph Farmer was in the corner of Bull Street 

 and the Minories in Old Square, Birmingham. He was an ironworker, 

 who became a successful gunsmith. He lived in the Square till 1735 

 when he moved to the house in Steelhouse Lane, known afterwards as 

 Farmer and Galton's house and subsequently still as Galton's Bank (see 



1 This house, of which we give the photograph of a water colour (see Plate XXXI), 

 was a frequent meeting place of the members of the Lunar Society. An interesting 

 account of the meetings at Great Barr in her childhood is given by Mary Anne Galton 

 (Mrs Schimmelpenninck). There is a paper in the Birmingham and Midland Institute 

 Archaeological Section, Transactions, 1890, pp. 79 84, by H. C. Bolton, on the Lunar 

 Society with references to Great Barr. 



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