In the 1810s Samuel Galton, Jr. showed that bogs could be drained and dressed with clay and other soil, and built Galton's Canal.
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Paul Moon James (1780–1854) was a successful English banker, who worked in partnership with Samuel Galton junior in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham.