Samuel Galton Jr.


Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS, born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England. Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. 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.
He married Lucy Barclay, daughter of Robert Barclay Allardice, MP, 5th of Urie. They had the eight children:
Galton owned of land at Westhay Moor, Somerset, which he had drained, by constructing Galton's Canal.

Commemoration

at Smethwick is named in his honour, and he is remembered by the Moonstones in Birmingham and a tower block in the centre of that city.