Career
Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds. They had the eight children:
Mary Anne Galton (1778–1856), married Lambert Schimmelpenick in 1806
Sophia Galton (1782–1863) married Charles Brewin in 1833
Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844) (whose son Francis Galton was also notable)
Theodore Galton (1784–1810)
Adele Galton (1784–1869) married John Kaye Booth, Doctor of Medicine in 1827, dsp.
Hubert John Barclay Galton (1789–1864)
Ewen Cameron Galton, (1791–1800), died aged 9.
John Howard Galton (1794–1862), father of Douglas Strutt Galton. Galton owned 300 acres (120 ha) of land at Westhay Moor, Somerset, which he had drained, by constructing Galton"s Canal.
Galton Bridge 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.