Editing Francis Galton (section)

==Awards and influence==
[[File:SIR_FRANCIS_GALTON_1822-1911_EXPLORER_STATISTICIAN_FOUNDER_OF_EUGENICS_LIVED_HERE_FOR_FIFTY_YEARS.jpg|thumb|363x363px|Marble plaque erected privately in c. 1931 at 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1PD, City of Westminster. Adopted by London County Council in 1959S]]
Over the course of his career Galton received many awards, including the [[Copley Medal]] of the Royal Society (1910). He received in 1853 the Founder's Medal, the highest award of the [[Royal Geographical Society]], for his explorations and map-making of southwest Africa. He was elected a member of the [[Athenaeum Club, London|Athenaeum Club]] in 1855 and made a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1860. His autobiography also lists:{{sfn|Galton|1909|p=331}}

* Silver Medal, French Geographical Society (1854)
* [[Royal Medal|Gold Medal of the Royal Society]] (1886)
* [[Ordre des Palmes académiques|Officier de l'Instruction Publique]], France (1891)
* D.C.L. Oxford (1894)
* Sc.D. (Honorary), Cambridge (1895)
* [[Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture|Huxley Medal]], [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|Royal Anthropological Institute]] (1901)
* Elected Hon. Fellow Trinity College, Cambridge (1902)
* [[Darwin Medal]], Royal Society (1902)
* [[Linnean Society of London]]'s [[Darwin–Wallace Medal]] (1908)

Galton was knighted in 1909:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page 5806 {{!}} Issue 28275, 30 July 1909 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28275/page/5806 |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}</ref>

{{blockquote|text=The KING has also been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the 26th June, 1909, to confer the dignity of a Knight of the said United Kingdom upon:
Francis Galton, Esq., Sc.D., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge|source=The London Gazette, 30 July 1909 (issue 28275), pp. 5805–5806.}}

His statistical heir [[Karl Pearson]], first holder of the Galton Chair of Eugenics at [[University College, London|University College]], London (now Galton Chair of Genetics), wrote a three-volume biography of Galton, in four parts, after his death.{{sfn|Pearson|1914a}}{{sfn|Pearson|1914b}}{{sfn|Pearson|1930a}}{{sfn|Pearson|1930b}}

The flowering plant genus ''[[Galtonia]]'' was named after Galton.

[[University College London]] has in the twenty-first century been involved in a historical inquiry into its role as the institutional birthplace of eugenics. [[Galton Laboratory|Galton established a laboratory at UCL]] in 1904. Some students and staff have called on the university to rename its Galton lecture theatre, with journalist [[Angela Saini]] stating, "Galton's seductive promise was of a bold new world filled only with beautiful, intelligent, productive people. The scientists in its thrall claimed this could be achieved by controlling reproduction, policing borders to prevent certain types of immigrants, and locking away "undesirables", including disabled people."{{sfn|Saini|2019}}

In June 2020, [[University College London]] (UCL) announced the renaming of a lecture theatre named after Galton because of his connection with eugenics.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=20 June 2020|title=UCL renames three facilities that honoured prominent eugenicists|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/19/ucl-renames-three-facilities-that-honoured-prominent-eugenicists|date=19 June 2020|website=The Guardian}}</ref>