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Andrew Berry: Galton, 4 December 2003

A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics 
by Nicholas WrightGillham.
Oxford, 416 pp., £22.50, September 2002, 0 19 514365 5
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... then, on its success in positioning – or repositioning – him in relation to the Holocaust. Nicholas WrightGillham’s new Life isn’t quite satisfying in this regard. It does an excellent job of laying out Galton’s many mini-careers, and closes with a brief overview of the events that led to Nazi ...

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