Her father, Samuel Galton
, had intellectual interests; he belonged to the Lunar Society
. By trade he was a gunmaker, an avocation which drew some disapproval from the Society of Friends
, to which...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Johnson
The youngest of the family, Charles Woolsey, was baptised on 7 April 1748. The eldest boy, George William (born on 24 July 1740), once fell into the mill-pond (always a dangerous kind of water, being...
Timeline
1765: The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group...
Building item
1765
The Lunar Society
of Birmingham, a group of half a dozen men with interests in experimental science, began to meet regularly.
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