54 Life ami Letters of Francis Gallon, 



1856), who married Lambert Schimmelpenniuck. She was a woman of 

 very considerable literary power and made a special study of Port 

 Royal ; her works, The Theory and Classification of BeaiUy and 

 Deformity, 1815, and Select Memoiis of Fort Royal, 1829, had 

 considerable vogue in their day. Francis Galton has said all that 

 need be said on her separation from her family. Members of the 

 same family are at times mutually incompatible and it is a fact, not 

 perhaps easily explicable, but none the less demonstrable that such 

 incompatibilities often reappear generation by generation. Of the 

 two other sisters of Samuel Tertius, Sophia (1782—1863) married 

 (1833) Charles Brewin— his grandfather Charles Lloyd was first 

 cousin of Charles Lloyd who married Mary Farmer — and Adele (1784 

 — 1869) married Dr John Kaye Booth (1827). Neither of these 

 marriages made relatively late in life had issue. Of his Galton uncles 

 and aunts, Mi*s Booth in face resembles most closely Francis Galton, 

 and she has more resemblance to Samuel Galton, her father, than 

 Mi'S Schimmelpenniuck or Mrs Brewin, who are more like Lucy Barclay 

 in their portraits. But in mental characters — strong sense, excellent 

 memory, business aptitude and fondness for natural history — Mrs 

 Brewin had much that was akin to her nephew Francis, and perhaps 

 she is with the exception of Sir Francis Darwin the nearest of any uncle 

 or aunt to him in character (see Plates XXXV and XXXVI). 



Of Francis Galton's own brothers — Darwin Galton and Erasmus 

 Galton — little need be said here. Erasmus entered the navy, but soon 

 retired. Both brothers took their places as country gentlemen, and 

 did their duty to their neighbours and to their shire. This was a life 

 to which much of their ancestry, both Darwin and Galton, had been 

 accustomed. On the one side had intervened the Quaker movement, 

 followed by mercantile success, on the other, the exceptional appear- 

 ance of Erasmus Darwin. But the younger generation, whether we 

 consider the oftspring of Violetta Galton or Francis Darwin, followed a 

 sort of natural instinct and returned to the land. Their love of wild 

 life and nature may have been great, but it did not lead them to the 

 interpretation as well as to the observation of living forms. For a time 

 it seemed that this native bent would master Francis Galton. Like his 



school at Beading. The other brother Theodore, a young man of much ability, died of 

 fever at Malta (1810) when returning homeward with Francis Darwin — the fourth death 

 in the party. 



