fa fa bro, Edmund FRY (1754-1835), M.D. of Edinburgh; devoted his life to the business of type-founding, and to the philological studies connected with it.—["Dic. N. Biog.”]
wife, Mariabella, nee HODGKIN, dau of the historian.
Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.),
F.R.S.,
traveller, anthropologist
and biometrician; author of many works
and memoirs on these and analogous
subjects, including
meteorology, heredity, identification
by fingerprints; latterly a
promoter of the study of Eugenics.
Gold medal R. Geog. Soc.,
1853, for travels in Damaraland,
S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886,
and Darwin medal, 1903, of
the Royal Soc., for applications of
measurement to human faculty;
Huxley medal of the Anthropol.
Institute, 1901.—["Ency.
Brit.,” and “Who’s Who.”]
fa si, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and Moravians.—["Dic. N. Biog.”]
fa fa fa, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker philanthropist, contractor and banker.—[See life of above M.A.S., and the “Annual Register.”]
fa me 1/2 bro, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known as Capt. BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats, agriculturist.—["Dic. N. Biog.”]
me fa, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.—See DARWIN.
me 1/2 bro son, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.—See DARWIN.
si son, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of the Land Agents’ Society; commissioner and estate agent during sixteen years for 155,000 acres of various descriptions of property.
fa bro son, Sir Douglas GALTON (1822-1901), K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., passed from Woolwich to Royal Engineers with the best examination then on record, obtaining first prize in every subject, 1840; Inspector of Railways, and Secretary of Railway Dept., Board of Trade, 1856; Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications, 1860; designed and constructed the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich; Director of Public Works and Building in H.M. Works, 1870-1875; General Secretary of British Assoc., 1870-1895; President of it, 1895; authority on hospital construction, and on the sanitation, ventilation, etc., of public buildings.—["Dict. N. Biog.,” Suppl. ii.]
His kindred by his mother’s side are:
me fa fa, Jedediah
STRUTT (1726-1797), hosiery manufacturer and
cotton spinner; inventor of
machine for making ribbed stockings;
partner of Sir Richard Arkwright.—["Dict.
N. Biog.”]
me fa, Joseph STRUTT
(1765-1844), first Mayor of Derby, 1835,
and donor of the arboretum;
great friend of the poet Thomas
Moore.—["Dict.
N. Biog.,” and “Life and Letters”
of T. Moore.]