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Sir Douglas Strutt Galton, K.C.B., F.R.S., was elected a Fellow 

 in 1848 and died on March 10th, 1899. He was among our oldest 

 Fellows, and served on the Council from 1870 to 1874. 



Born in 1823 at Hadzor House (Worcestershire), at the age of 15 

 he entered the Royal Military Academy, and in 1840 obtained a 

 commission in the Royal Engineers, greatly distinguishing himself 

 and gaining the first prize in every subject of examination. 



, He was engaged in the attempt to raise the Royal George. Sub- 

 sequently he served on the Ordnance Survey, and did much work in 

 connexion with railway-engineering, metropolitan drainage, sub- 

 marine cables, and the sanitary condition of the Army, besides 

 sitting on various Royal Commissions, etc. In 1860 he was 

 made Assistant Inspector- General of Fortifications, and in 1862 

 Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War, a post which he 

 held for eight years, when he became Director of Public Works 

 and Buildings (under the Board of Works), in which capacity he 

 served until 1875. 



He was General Secretary of the British Association from 1871 

 to 1895, in which latter year he became President. In 1894 he 

 was made an Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 and many other honours were bestowed upon him, including various 

 foreign orders of knighthood. 



The later years of his life were specially devoted to sanitary 

 science, in the development of which he greatly assisted, and his 

 last official appearance in public was as president of a meeting 

 of the Sanitary Institute, for the reading of a paper on the water- 

 supply of London. He was then rather indisposed, though no 

 serious malady was suspected ; but he gradually became weaker, 

 and blood-poisoning set in, with fatal results. 



He was buried at Hadzor, and two days later a memorial service 

 was held at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, when the whole of that large 

 church was filled, for Douglas Galton had very many friends. I 

 regret that, owing to a mistake, I was not present, although our 

 Society was represented, for I always held him in high regard. 1 



Townshend Monckton Hall was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1865, and died on July 1st, 1899. 



Born at Torquay on March 22nd, 1845, he studied for a short 

 time at Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving there he devoted 



1 The above account is chiefly compiled from notices in Journ. San. Inst, 

 vol. xx, pp. 184-90, and in Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. vol. cxxxvii, pp. 413-17. 



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