Galton, Frank Wallis

A certificate, 1890, of Frank Wallis Galton's admission to the freedom of the City of London.

Frank Wallis Galton was born in London in 1867. He was educated at the Working Men's College at Great Ormond, London. He was apprentice to a silversmith and engraver in the City of London and Freeman of the City by servitude. He was Private Secretary to Sydney and Beatrice Webb from 1892 to 1898; Secretary of the London Reform Union, 1899-1918 and the City of London Liberal Association, 1903-1905. During the First World War he was Assistant Secretary to the Central Association of Volunteer Regiments and editor of The Volunteer Gazette . After the war he became the editor of the Municipal Journal from 1918-1920. Galton also published works on the social sciences, including, The Tailoring Trade , published by the London School of Economics and Workers on their Industries , as well as various articles and pamphlets. Galton died on 9 April 1952.

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The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds correspondence, an autobiography, and papers, 1886-1947 (Ref: COLL MISC 315, 344, 658).

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