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Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 – 19 June 1832) was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England, into a Quaker family; despite that background he became a merchant selling guns. He was a member of the Lunar Society and lived at Great Barr Hall. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds.

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Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 – 19 June 1832) was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England, into a Quaker family. He would go on to join his father's gun manufacturing company. He became a member of the Lunar Society in December of 1785 and lived at Great Barr Hall. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds.


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Galton was a lover of animals and even owned many bloodhounds. He loved birds as well, publishing three book volumes about them.
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Lunar Society
Samuel Galton joined the Lunar Society in December of 1785. Galton would join the Lunar Society as an in-person replacement for Erasmus Darwin, who remarried and moved away. He would be one of the fourteen members to be active during the height of the society. One reason for his inclusion into the Society was his love for statistics and data and his tendency to compare datasets.

Galton also had a great love for natural history, one of the subjects taught in Quaker schools. This, compounded with his love for animals, lead him to write many natural history books on them. His first set was The Natural History of Birds: containing a variety of facts… for the amusement and instruction of children. This was a three-volume set of books intended for the education of children, specifically at first for his children. These were also the first natural history books written with the intent for children to be the primary readers.

Galton married Lucy Barclay (1757–1817), daughter of Robert Barclay Allardice, MP, 5th of Urie. They had eight children:


 * Mary Anne Galton (1778–1856), married Lambert Schimmelpenninck in 1806
 * Sophia Galton (1782–1863) married Charles Brewin in 1833
 * Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844) (whose son Francis Galton was also notable)
 * Theodore Galton (1784–1810)
 * Adele Galton (1784–1869) married John Kaye Booth, MD, in 1827, dsp.
 * Hubert John Barclay Galton (1789–1864)
 * Ewen Cameron Galton, (1791–1800), died aged 9.
 * John Howard Galton (1794–1862), father of Douglas Strutt Galton.

Family Life
Galton married Lucy Barclay (1757-1817), the daughter of Robert Barclay Allardice, MP, 5th of Ury. They would go on to have eight children together. His first born was Mary Anne Galton (1778-1856) who was a writer in the anti-slavery movement. She would marry Lambert Schimmelpenninck in 1806. Galton's second child was Sophia Galton who would go on to marry Charles Brewin. His first son, Samuel Tertius Galton (1783-1844) would also become a member of the Lunar Society. He would end the family arms business in 1815. He married Violetta Darwin in 1807 and had a son named Francis Galton (1822-1911) who would go on to be a famous proponent of eugenics.

Galton had another son, Theodore Galton (1784-1810), although not much is known about him. His next child was Adele Galton (1784-1869) who would go on to marry John Kaye Booth, MD, in 1827. Next would come Hubert John Barclay Galton (1789-1864), followed by Ewen Cameron Galton (1791-1800) who died at the age of 9. His last child was John Howard Galton who married Isabelle Strutt. They had a son named Douglas Galton (1822-1899) who became one of the royal engineers.