# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-galton
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:55:49.885Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-galton"
name: "Samuel Galton"
slug: "samuel-galton"
description: "Samuel John Galton Jr. FRS was an English arms manufacturer. He was born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England, into a Quaker family. He would go on to join his father's gun manufacturing company. He was a member of the Lunar Society in December of 1785 and lived at Great Barr Hall, one of the meeting places for the Lunar Society. He also built a house at Warley Woods, and commissioned Humphry Repton to lay out its grounds."
tagline: "English arms manufacturer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Galton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1753-06-18"
deathDate: "1832-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.57
  momentum:             0.5
  historical:           5.273470666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Galton"
    title: "Samuel Galton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_John_Galton"
    title: "Samuel John Galton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Galton_Jr."
    title: "Samuel Galton Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Galton_Jr."
    title: "Samuel Galton Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Galton"
    title: "Samuel Galton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Galton"
    title: "Samuel Galton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q741817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump