“On the 5th June last at Malta, in the 27th year of his age, Mr Theodore Galton, second son of Samuel Galton Esquire of Dudson House near Birmingham.

“This gentleman went to Spain in November 1808, induced by the impulse of a generous spirit to contemplate the exertions of a people struggling for their liberty. After witnessing the accumulated disasters of the Spanish Nation, he sailed up the Mediterranean and travelled through Asia Minor, Constantinople, and the Grecian Archipelago. Amongst the latter he passed several months, regarding, with the admiration and delight which spring from a cultivated and classical taste, those consecrated scenes of ancient genius. Returning from Smyrna to Malta, he was attacked on his arrival at the latter place by a Typhus fever which proved fatal; and he expired in the arms of his friend and travelling companion, Dr F. S. Darwin.

“Mr Theodore Galton was of amiable and polished manners, and would have proved, had he lived, a manly and noble character. It is remarkable that Dr Darwin is the only survivor of five travellers who sailed together from Falmouth in November 1808, the other four having fallen victims to the fatigues and dangers of foreign climes.”