Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 – 19 June 1832) was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in

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, into a

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family; despite that background he became a merchant selling guns. He was a member of the

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and lived at Great Barr Hall. He also built a house at

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, and commissioned

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to lay out its grounds. 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 *

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(1783–1844) (whose son

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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 Sir Douglas Strutt Galton (2 July 1822 – 18 March 1899) was a British engineer. He became a captain in the Royal Engineers and Secretary to the Railway Department, Board of Trade. In 1866 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Railways ...

. Galton owned of land at

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, which he had drained, by constructing

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. He is remembered by the Moonstones in

and a tower block in the centre of that city.

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