Thomas Garnier (1776–1873) was an English churchman and

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from 1840 to 1872. Winchester Cathedral - Dean Garnier Garden

Life

He was the son of George Garnier of

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, educated at

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. He matriculated at

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in 1793; he became a Fellow of All Souls and graduated BCL 1800 and DCL 1850.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory'' appendix, 1861.
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He was appointed

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, in 1807, retaining this with the deanery. At Worcester College, Garnier's tutor was Stephen Long Jacob, who is said to have given him a taste for gardening. In 1798, encouraged by

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, he joined the

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. 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. 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). Garnier was a friend of

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and a staunch Whig.

Family

In 1805, Garnier married Mary Parry, daughter of Caleb Hillyer Parry M.D. They had four sons and four daughters. Of the sons: * Thomas Garnier, rowed in the first university boat race, was Dean of

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from 1860 to 1863 and married Lady Caroline Elizabeth Keppel, daughter of William Charles Keppel, fourth Earl of Albemarle, and his wife Elizabeth Southwell, daughter of

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. * John Garnier was a first-class cricketer.

References

External links

Dean Garnier's Garden

Martin Tod website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Garnier, Thomas Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford 1776 births 1873 deaths English botanists Deans of Winchester People from the City of Winchester People from Bishopstoke Fellows of the Linnean Society of London