The Ancestrif of Francis Gallon 



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Hubert and Francis did later, from asthma, he yet inherited something 

 of his Barclay ancestors' power of walking, and wovild walk all day 

 without fatiofue. He was not a man of that kind of note which finds 

 its way into biographical dictionaries, but he did — what many of us 

 everyday mortals fail to do — the usual work of the everyday world 

 and he did it well'. As a result he was respected by all who knew him 

 and beloved by all his children, who found in him on every occasion 

 their best friend. He died at the relatively early age of 61, and left 

 his sons each sufficient fortune to follow their own bent apart from 

 a profession. 



Like Samuel Tertius, his two brothers John Hubert Barclay 

 Galton (1789—1864) and John Howard Galton (1794—1862) married 

 into able stocks, the first married Mary, daughter of Robert Barclay, 

 Banker of London, and therefore a multiple cousin ; the second a 

 daughter of Joseph Strutt and ultimately his heiress. Miss Sti'utt 

 was a granddaughter of Jedediah Strutt (1726 — 1797), the partner of 

 Arkwright in establishing the spinning jenny, and himself an inventor 

 of no mean order. Her father was not only the benefactor of Derby, 

 but an intimate friend of Thomas Moore and Edgeworth. John 

 Hubert had four children, three died quite young and the fourth left 

 no issue. John Howard Galton's is the only line by which the name 

 of Galton has been preserved. His second son Sir Douglas Galton 

 (1822 — 1899) reached fame in a variety of ways: as a Royal Engineer 

 he did much good, especially for the Commission on the Application of 

 Iron to Railway Structures (1848); he was General Secretary and 

 afterwards President of the British Association and the third of his 

 name to obtain fellowship of the Royal Society. He was Assistant 

 Inspector-General of Fortifications (1859 — 1862), Assistant Under- 

 Secretary of War (1862—1870) and Director of Public Works and 

 Buildings (1870 — 1875); and generally an able chairman of committees 

 and of very considerable inventive ability. His achievements mark 

 the scientific and business capacity of Galton and Strutt stocks, apart 

 from the scientific imagination contributed by the Darwin blend. Of 

 Tertius Galton's sisters" the most noteworthy was Mary Anne (1778 — 



' A shorthand diary of Tertius Galton for the years 1829 — 1844 (Eugenics 

 Laboratory) testifies to his multifarious duties and his genial nature. 



" Of the remaining brothers Ewen Cameron died as a child of nine, according to 

 family tradition from the rough usage he received from the elder boys at Dr Valpy's 



