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".

It was founded in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, with the aim of promoting the research and understanding of eugenics. It became the Eugenics Society in 1926 (often referred to as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others).

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 and Leonard Darwin
• Charles Davenport, Vice President (1931)
• Robert Geoffrey Edwards
• Havelock Ellis
• Hans Eysenck
• Ronald Fisher
• Charles Goethe
• Ezra Gosney
• Madison Grant
• David Starr Jordan, Vice President (1916, 1931)
• Franz Josef Kallmann
• John Harvey Kellogg
• Richard Lynn
• James Meade
• Peter Medawar
• Naomi Mitchison
• Henry Fairfield Osborn and Frederick Osborn
• Karl Pearson
• Roger Pearson
• Margaret Pyke
• Margaret Sanger
• Eliot Slater
• Marie Stopes
• James Mourilyan Tanner
• Frank Yates

See also

• American Eugenics Society
• Eugenics
• Human Betterment Foundation
• Arthur Jensen
• Glayde Whitney
• Walter Kistler

External links

• Galton Institute
• The Galton Institute, Registered Charity no. 209258 at the Charity Commission