Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Born 16 February 1822 Birmingham
Died 17 January 1911
Married 1 August 1853 Peterborough Cathedral
Louisa Jane Butler, daughter of Rev. George Butler, Dean of
Peterborough
Died 13 August 1897
He studied at Birmingham,
London, and Cambridge, but left the study of
medicine to travel to North
and South Africa. He is best known for his
studies of heredity and
intelligence, such as "Hereditary Genius"
(1869), which led to the
field he called 'eugenics'. Several of his
ideas are referred to in
the work of his cousin, Charles Darwin. He
was knighted in 1909.
Source: The Cambridge Biographical
Encyclopedia, Cambridge, 1994, by David Crystal.
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