Robert Galloway

John's son James William Galloway, coalmaster in Ayrshire, and Sir William's son Christian Francis John Galloway, a mining engineer and author in Cardiff were the only members of the next generation to continue in the industry.

Robert Galloway died in Scotland on 24 February 1908 at Bridge of Allan, in Stirlingshire.

When Galloway was 27 he was a mining engineer and coal master employing five men in 1871 at Sorn in Ayrshire.

After he married he moved to County Durham and qualified as a certificated colliery manager and became a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers at Ryton on Tyne on 6 December 1873.

[6][7] In 1906 papers relating to the history of the coal trade and the invention of the steam engine were published.