Plaque to Sir Francis Galton

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Plaque to Sir Francis Galton

Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 22 Feb 2014

This plaque on 42 Rutland Gate refers to Galton as a statistician and founder of (the controversial theory of) eugenics; he also invented fingerprinting. See Image for context.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.499309
Longitude
-0.167879