Sir Douglas Strutt Galton KCB MStJ FRS (2 July 1822 – 18 March 1899) was a British engineer.
Galton and Florence Nightingale worked together closely for many years on safer design for hospitals and barracks.
They were both committed to the then new "pavilion" mode of construction, which made Britain a world leader in hospital safety.
She stressed the importance of the materials for hospital walls, floors, sinks, appliances and finishes to make them more impervious to disease, and he obliged by searching out the best examples to recommend.
It still stands, now with a historic designation, radically rebuilt as luxury apartments, the Royal Herbert Pavilions.
At Farnham on 26 August 1851 he married Marianne Nicholson (sometimes seen as Mary Anne) of Waverley Abbey, who was Florence Nightingale's cousin.
The younger daughter Evelyne Isabella married Count Camillo Fenzi at Hadzor, Worcestershire on 21 July 1875[5] but he reportedly died as a result of a shooting accident aged only 30.
In 1898 she remarried to Leonard D. Cunliffe, London financier, Governor of the Bank of England, President of the Hudson's Bay Company and one of the major investors in the Harrods department stores.
Galton was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, civil division at Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887.
Galton is remembered in a Warwickshire church near his country home: "The 15th century glass in this window was restored and dedicated to the glory of God by the parishioners of Himbleton in dear memory of Captain Sir Douglas Galton, KCB, an earnest and true-hearted seeker after God.