Thomas Garnett (other)
Thomas Garnett may refer to: * Thomas Garnet (or Garnett) (c. 1575–1608), English saint * Thomas Garnett (physician) (1766–1802), English physician * Thomas Garnett (manufacturer) (1799–1878), manufacturer and naturalist * Thomas Garnett (footballer) (1900–1950), English association footballer * Tommy Garnett Thomas Ronald Garnett OAM (1 January 1915 – 22 September 2006) was an English and Australian headmaster, horticulturist, ornithologist and author. Before the Second World War, he played first-class cricket for Somerset. Early years Ga ...

Thomas Garnet
Thomas Garnet (9 November 1575 – 23 June 1608) was a Jesuit priest who was executed in London. He is the protomartyr (i.e., the first martyr associated with a place) of Saint Omer and of Stonyhurst College. He was executed at Tyburn and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Early life and education Thomas Garnet was born into a prominent family in Southwark. His uncle, Henry Garnet, was the superior of the Jesuits in England. Richard Garnet, Thomas's father, was at Balliol College, Oxford, at the time when great severity began to be used against Catholics. His example provided leadership to a generation of Oxford men which was to produce Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, and other English Catholics. Thomas attended Collyer's School in Horsham, Sussex, and was afterwards a page to one of the half-brothers of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, who were, however, conformists (i.e. conformed to the Anglican faith). Because English colleges had been turned over t ...
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Thomas Garnett (physician)
Thomas Garnett (21 April 1766 – 28 June 1802) was an English physician and natural philosopher. Life Garnett was born on 21 April 1766 at Casterton in Westmoreland, where his father had a small landed property. After attending Sedbergh School, he was at fifteen articled at his own request to the John Dawson (surgeon) of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, who was a surgeon and mathematician. Garnett obtained a knowledge of chemistry and physics, and he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1785 with "exceptional scientific knowledge". He was particularly zealous in his attendance on the lectures of Dr. Black and of Dr. John Brown, and he became a disciple of the Brunonian theory. "He avoided," says his anonymous biographer, "almost all society, and it is said he never allowed himself at this period more than four hours sleep per day. He graduated in 1788, completed his medical education in London, and, returning for a short time to his parents and wrote his treatise on optics fo ...
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Thomas Garnett (manufacturer)
Thomas Garnett (1799 – 21 May 1878) was a manufacturer and naturalist. Life Thomas, younger brother of Richard Garnett (philologist) and Jeremiah Garnett was born at Otley, Yorkshire, England, on 18 January 1799. In his early days he supported himself by weaving pieces on his own account, but about the age or twenty-one he obtained employment in the great manufacturing establishment of Garnett & Horsfall, Low Moor, Clitheroe, founded and then directed by his uncle, Jeremiah Garnett, esq., of Roe Field. He successively became manager and partner, and at the time of his death had for many years been head of the firm. He was one of the first to propose the artificial propagation of fish (aquaculture), on which he wrote in the ''Magazine of Natural History'' in 1832; he also first discovered the economical value of alpaca wool, which he failed in inducing his partners to take up; and he was one of the earliest experimenters with guano. His papers on natural history and kindred subj ...
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Thomas Garnett (footballer)
Thomas Garnett (1900 – 10 January 1950) was an English professional association footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Football League Third Division North for Nelson in the 1921–22 season. His single league appearance for the club came on 14 January 1922 in the 0–2 loss to Ashington at Seedhill. References * * 1900 births 1950 deaths Footballers from Burnley English men's footballers Men's association football wingers Nelson F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub ...
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