Thomas Garnier
Thomas Garnier (1776–1873) was an English churchman and botanist, Dean of Winchester from 1840 to 1872.
| Thomas Garnier | |
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| Born | 1776  |
| Died | 29 June 1873 (aged 96–97) |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Miller |
| Children | Thomas Garnier |
Life
He was educated at Hyde Abbey School and Worcester College, Oxford; he became a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford and graduated BCL 1800 and DCL 1850.[1] He was appointed Rector of Bishopstoke, Hampshire, in 1807, retaining this with the deanery.[1]
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. Other sons included Keppel Garnier, Commander in the Royal Navy,[2] and John Garnier, a first-class cricketer.[3]
References
- Crockford's Clerical Directory appendix, 1861. (p. 16)
- The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, Arthur Edmund Garnier, 1900
- Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. p. 510.
- Simmonds, Joan. "A Brief History of Bishopstoke". Bishopstoke Parish Council. Retrieved 7 January 2007.