Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
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Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Galton, 25 November 1778 – 29 August 1856) was a British writer in the anti-slavery movement.
The eldest Daughter of Samuel "John" Galton and Lucy Barclay, Mary Anne Galton was the sister of Samuel Tertius Galton
and the aunt of Francis Galton
. She married Dutch tobacco merchant Lambert Schimmelpennick in 1806.
Her family considered her a "mischief-maker", with Francis Galton saying that she "broke off eleven marriages".
The eldest Daughter of Samuel "John" Galton and Lucy Barclay, Mary Anne Galton was the sister of Samuel Tertius Galton
Samuel Tertius Galton
Samuel Tertius Galton was a businessman and scientist.-Life:He was the son of Samuel "John" Galton, a prominent member of the scientific Lunar Society, and the father of Francis Galton the eminent Victorian scientist. He born in the area of Duddeston in Birmingham...
and the aunt of Francis Galton
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
. She married Dutch tobacco merchant Lambert Schimmelpennick in 1806.
Her family considered her a "mischief-maker", with Francis Galton saying that she "broke off eleven marriages".