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Francis Galton
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- Born:
- February 16, 1822 England
- Awards And Honors:
- Copley Medal (1910)
- Subjects Of Study:
- human intelligence
Francis Galton, in full Sir Francis Galton, (born February 16, 1822, near Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England—died January 17, 1911, Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey), English explorer, anthropologist, and eugenicist known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence. He was knighted in 1909. Galton’s family life was happy, and he gratefully acknowledged that he owed much to his father and mother. But he had little use for the conventional classical and religious teaching he received in school and church. Indeed, he later confessed in a letter to his cousin English naturalist Charles Darwin that the traditional biblical arguments had made him “wretched.” ...(100 of 1013 words)