The journal
Open the journal →The conversation starts in the journal — be the first to post.
About Samuel Galton
Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS 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. He was a member of the Lunar Society in December of 1785 and lived at Great Barr Hall, one of the meeting places for the Lunar Society. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds.
Everything about Samuel Galton →- Occupation
- inventor
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- June 18, 1753
- Died
- June 19, 1832