Samuel Tertius Galton was a business

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man and scientist

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Life

He was the son of Samuel "John" Galton, a prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society

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, and the father of Francis Galton

Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...

 the eminent Victorian

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 scientist. He born in the area of Duddeston

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 in Birmingham

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. Samuel Tertius, though less distinguished, was not an exception to the rule of scientific endeavour in his family.

Galton also inherited his father's considerable business interests and quickly set about making changes - discontinuing the family's armaments business in 1815.
Though fascinated by economics

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 (he wrote papers on the subject) Samuel preferred to be less 'hands-on' in the running of the business than his father and spent much of his time living off the revenue of his considerable estate.

Family

Though brought up a Quaker, Samuel converted to the Church of England

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 in 1807. On 30 March 1807, he married Violetta (Francis Anne Viollette) Darwin, one of the fourteen children of his father's old colleague and fellow Lunar Society member Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...

. Many of the 'Lunar children' grew up together and there were several such marriages. They had four daughters and three sons:

• Elizabeth Anne Galton (1808–1906), married Edward Wheler
• Lucy Harriot Galton (1809–1848), married James Moilliet
• Millicent Adele Galton (1810–1883), married the Rev Robert Shirley Bunbury
• Emma Sophia Galton (1811–1904), did not marry.
• Darwin Galton (1814–1903). High Sheriff of Warwickshire
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   in 1850.
• Erasmus Galton (1815–1909)
• Francis Galton
  Francis Galton
  Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
  
  (1822–1911)