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John Howard Galton

1794–1862

Of Hadzor House, Droitwich, Worcestershire. High sheriff of Worcestershire, 1834. Father of Douglas Strutt Galton and uncle of Francis Galton.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1879

ODNB s.v. Galton, Douglas Strutt

Bibliography

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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