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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.[1]
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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.[2] He became a member of the Lunar Society in December of 1785 and lived at Great Barr Hall.[3] He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds.[1]
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Galton was a lover of animals and even owned many bloodhounds.[4] He loved birds as well, publishing three book volumes about them.[4]
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Galton would join the Lunar Society as an in-person replacement for Erasmus Darwin, who remarried and moved away.[5]
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- ^ a b Historic England. "Warley Park (1001301)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Inikori, J. E. (1977). "The Import of Firearms into West Africa 1750-1807: A Quantitative Analysis". Journal of African History. 18 (2) – via JSTOR.
- ^ Smith, Barbara M. D.; Moilliet, J. L. (1967). "James Keir of the Lunar Society". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 22.
- ^ a b Galton, Francis (1909). Memories of My Life (2nd ed.). E. P. Dutton And Company. p. 3.
- ^ Schofield, Robert (1966). "The Lunar Society of Birmingham; A Bicentenary Appraisal". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 21 (2) – via JSTOR.