Family
Though brought up a Quaker, Samuel converted to the Church of England in 1807. On 30 March 1807, he married Violetta (Francis Anne Viollette) Darwin, one of the fourteen children of his father's old colleague and fellow Lunar Society member Erasmus Darwin. Many of the 'Lunar children' grew up together and there were several such marriages. They had four daughters and three sons:
- Elizabeth Anne Galton (1808–1906), married Edward Wheler
- Lucy Harriot Galton (1809–1848), married James Moilliet
- Millicent Adele Galton (1810–1883), married the Rev Robert Shirley Bunbury
- Emma Sophia Galton (1811–1904), did not marry.
- Darwin Galton (1814–1903). High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1850.
- Erasmus Galton (1815–1909)
- Francis Galton (1822–1911)
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