Thomas Garnier (1776 - 1873)

Born 26 Feb 1776 in Rookesbury Park, Wickham, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Parry) Garnier — married 8 May 1805 in Walcot St Swithin, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 29 Jun 1873 at age 97 in 4 Dome Alley, The Close, Winchester, Hampshire, England

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Biography

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

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 ofWilliam 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.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Garnier
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Garnier, Thomas (1776–1873)