Galton Institute
The Galton Institute is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are "to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology".[1]
It was founded in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, with the aim of promoting the research and understanding of eugenics.[2] It became the Eugenics Society in 1926 (often referred to as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others). From 1909-1968 it published The Eugenics Review. Membership reached its peak during the 1930s.[3]
The Society was based near Brockwell Park, Lambeth in London. It is currently based in Northfields, London, and changed its name to the Galton Institute in 1989.
Prominent members
- John Maynard Keynes, Director 1937–1944, V.P. 1937
- Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister between 1937 and 1940
- Richard Titmuss
- William Beveridge
- David Coleman
- Leonard Arthur, tried for murder in 1981 but acquitted
- Arthur Balfour
- Alfred Ploetz, Vice-president (1916)
- Julian Huxley, Vice-president (1937–44), President (1959–62)
- Dr Florence Barrett
- Paul Blanshard
- Walter Bodmer
- Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
- Chris Brand
- Cyril Burt
- John Cockburn
- Charles D'Arcy
- Charles Galton Darwin, son of George Darwin
- Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin
- Charles Davenport, Vice President (1931)
- Mary Dendy
- Robert Geoffrey Edwards
- Havelock Ellis
- Hans Eysenck
- Ronald Fisher
- Francis Galton, founding President and after whom the institute was eventually renamed
- Charles Goethe
- Ezra Gosney
- Madison Grant
- Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder, ′The Lord Holder′, President (1935-1949)
- David Starr Jordan, Vice President (1916, 1931)
- Franz Josef Kallmann
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Richard Lynn
- James Meade
- Peter Medawar
- Naomi Mitchison
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Frederick Osborn
- Karl Pearson
- Roger Pearson
- Margaret Pyke
- Margaret Sanger
- Eliot Slater
- Marie Stopes
- James Mourilyan Tanner
- Alice Vickery
- Frank Yates
- Sybil Neville-Rolfe
See also
References
- ↑ "Galton Institute Home Page". Galton Institute. Accessed 14 December 2010.
- ↑ Template:Cite ref
- ↑ Brignell, Victoria (9 December 2010). "The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
Membership of the British Eugenics Society reached its peak during the 1930s.