Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS (18 June 1753 – 19 June 1832) was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England, into a Quaker family.
Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath active as a statistician, anthropologist, psychologist, meteorologist, explorer, and geographer who was the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era,...
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution is a 2018 nonfiction book by American Stanford University historian Priya Satia, published by Penguin Press. The book argues that war and the British gun trade were central to the...
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in...
Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury (25 August 1779 – 1 May 1854), better known as Captain Barclay, was a Scottish walker of the early 19th century, known as the Celebrated Pedestrian. His most famous feat was walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours for...
David Barclay of Cheapside (1682–1769) was a Scottish merchant and banker. He was the second son of Robert Barclay, the Scottish Quaker writer, and was active in the Society of Friends. An apprentice in London in 1698, he became a leading linen...
Warley Woods (sometimes known as Warley Park, or Warley Woods Park) is a 100-acre (40 ha) public park in the Warley district of Smethwick, in Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England, originally laid out by Humphry Repton. It has been grade II...
Galton's Canal was a 1-mile 3 furlong (2.2 km) canal with one lock, crossing Westhay Moor in Somerset, England, and connecting the River Brue to the North Drain. It was operational by 1822, and ceased to be used after the 1850s.
