Thomas Garnier

Thomas Garnier
Born 1776 Edit this on Wikidata
Died 29 June 1873 Edit this on Wikidata
Children Thomas Garnier Edit this on Wikidata

The Very Reverend Thomas Garnier (1776–1873) was an English churchman and botanist, Dean of Winchester from 1840 to 1872.

The Dean Garnier Garden in Winchester text
The Dean Garnier Garden in Winchester.

Life

He was educated at Hyde Abbey School and Worcester College, Oxford. He was appointed Rector of Bishopstoke, Hampshire, in 1807.

Whilst Dean, he was a founding member of the Hampshire Horticultural Society in 1818 (Dean Garnier's Garden in Winchester's cathedral close is named after him) and, in the 1860s, an 'anti-muckabite' campaigner for a sewerage system for Winchester (with the road to the town's first sewerage pumping station later being named after him).

He was a friend of Palmerston and a staunch whig.

His son, also called Thomas Garnier, rowed in the first university boat race, was Dean of Lincoln from 1860-1863 and married Lady Caroline Elizabeth Keppel, daughter of William Charles Keppel, fourth Earl of Albemarle, and his wife Elizabeth Southwell, daughter of Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford. Another son was Keppel Garnier, Commander in the Royal Navy.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, Arthur Edmund Garnier, 1900
  • Simmonds, Joan. "A Brief History of Bishopstoke". Bishopstoke Parish Council. Retrieved 2007-01-07.
  •  "Garnier, Thomas (1776-1873)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  • Dean Garnier's Garden
  • National Portrait Gallery article on Dean Garnier
  • Martin Tod website
  • The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, Arthur Edmund Garnier, 1900
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