Francis Galton
| Francis Galton MA, DCL, FRS, FGS, FRGS | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||||
| Born | 1822 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1911 | ||||||||||||
| Residence | 42 Rutland Gate Hyde Park and Athenaeum Club [1862] | ||||||||||||
| Occupation |
academic explorer inventor | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1863-64 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1864-65 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1865-66 Hon. Secretary
possibly more, check printed lists
AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Vice President
AI Council 1875 Vice President
AI Council 1876 Vice President
AI Council 1877 Vice President
AI Council 1878 Vice President
AI Council 1879 Vice President
AI Council 1880 Vice President
AI Council 1881 Vice President
AI Council 1882 Vice President
AI Council 1883 Vice President
AI Council 1884 Vice President
AI Council 1885 President
AI Council 1886 President
AI Council 1887 President
AI Council 1888 President
House Notes
1901 HML The possible improvement of the human breed under existing conditions of law and sentiment Delivered 29th Oct. in the lecture hall of the Society of Arts
death noted in the report of the council for 1911: To the death of Sir Francis Galton, who joined the Ethnological Society in 1862, allusion has already been made in Man ,1911, 22, and it is unnecessary to enlarge on his services to anthropological science before the Fellows of this Institute.
Notes From Elsewhere
16.2.1822-17.1.1911
anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.
Member of the Athenaeum club from 1855
Born Birmingham; died Haslemere. Father was Samuel T. Galton, a very successful banker from whom he inherited a large fortune. His mother, Frances, a daughter of Erasmus Darwin, made him a first cousin of Charles Darwin. Both his grandfathers were members of the Birmingham Lunar Society. Married in 1883, Louisa Butler, daughter of George Butler, Dean of Peterborough and Headmaster of Harrow, and sister of the Master of Trinity.
Explored in Africa in 1850s.
Knighthood 1909. Meteorological Council 1868-1901; Honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
English polymath: traveller, geographer, meteorologist, statistician, geneticist and scientist.[111] Knighted in 1908. After his return from exploring South-West Africa, Galton met Burton at Dover, around January of 1853. Burton was staying there with his sister Maria Stisted. They were close friends through the 1850s and early 1860s, until the dispute between Burton and Speke produced a rift, after Galton had defended Speke in the columns of The Reader. They were reconciled in later years, as the correspondence reproduced in volumes 2 and 3 shows.
Publications
External Publications
House Publications
ESL On the first steps towards the domestication of animals
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
British Library, RGS, Oxford U., Royal Society, Cambridge U., UCL, McGill University, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories [papers, corresp.]