Francis Galton dies

January 17, 1911. Sir Francis Galton, who coined the term "eugenics", dies at age of 88, leaving a significant amount of money to the University College London (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.). The endowment helped establish the Galton Eugenics Professorship. The first person to hold the post was Karl Pearson (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.). The Laboratory of Eugenics was also endowed to the University of London upon Galton's death (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.).

Until his death, Galton remained a researcher of heredity and eugenics (Francis Galton, 2015). He maintained several positions of authority in eugenic associations and journals in his later years (such as Biometrika), and published an autobiography in 1908 (Francis Galton, 2015), only three years before his passing.

-Erna Kurbegovic and Colette Leung

Francis Galton dies

January 17, 1911. Sir Francis Galton, who coined the term "eugenics", dies at age of 88, leaving a significant amount of money to the University College London (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.). The endowment helped establish the Galton Eugenics Professorship. The first person to hold the post was Karl Pearson (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.). The Laboratory of Eugenics was also endowed to the University of London upon Galton's death (Biography of Francis Galton, n.d.).

Until his death, Galton remained a researcher of heredity and eugenics (Francis Galton, 2015). He maintained several positions of authority in eugenic associations and journals in his later years (such as Biometrika), and published an autobiography in 1908 (Francis Galton, 2015), only three years before his passing.

-Erna Kurbegovic and Colette Leung