Thomas Garnier

For other people named Thomas Garnier, see Thomas Garnier (disambiguation).

The Reverend Thomas Garnier FLS
Garnier in 1861 by Camille Silvy
Born	(1776-02-26)26 February 1776 Rookesbury, Hampshire, England
Died	29 June 1873(1873-06-29) (aged 97) Winchester, England
Other names	Thomas Garnier the Elder
Education	Worcester College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Clergyman, botanist
Spouse	Mary Parry
Children	8, including Thomas and John
Father	George Charles Garnier

Thomas Garnier the Elder FLS (26 February 1776 – 29 June 1873) was an English clergyman and botanist. He was Dean of Winchester from 1840 to 1872.

The Dean Garnier Garden in Winchester.

Life

Thomas Garnier was born in Rookesbury, Hampshire, on 26 February 1776, the son of George Charles (1739–1819) and Margaret Garnier (d. 1807); his family was of Huguenot origin.[1] He was educated at Hyde Abbey School and matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1793; he became a Fellow of All Souls College and graduated BCL 1800 and DCL 1850.[2][3] He was appointed Rector of Bishopstoke, Hampshire, in 1807, retaining this with the deanery.[3]

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 Sir Joseph Banks, he joined the Linnean Society of London.[4] 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, he was an 'anti-muckabite' campaigner for a sewerage system for Winchester. The road to the town's first sewerage pumping station was later named after him.

Garnier was a friend of Palmerston and a staunch Whig. He died in Winchester on 29 June 1873.[1]

Family

In 1805, Garnier married Mary Parry, daughter of Caleb Hillyer Parry M.D. They had four sons and four daughters.[1] Of the sons:

• Thomas Garnier,[5] rowed in the first university boat race, was Dean of Lincoln 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 Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford.
• John Garnier was a first-class cricketer.[6]

References

1. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1890). "Garnier, Thomas (1776-1873)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Garnier, Thomas (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory appendix, 1861. (p. 16)
4. Garnier, Arthur Edmund (1900). The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire during four centuries, 1530-1900. Norwich & London: Jarrold & sons, The Empire press. p. 39.
5. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Garnier, Thomas (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
6. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Garnier, John" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.

• Simmonds, Joan. "A Brief History of Bishopstoke". Bishopstoke Parish Council. Retrieved 7 January 2007.^[dead link‍]

External links

• Dean Garnier's Garden
• Martin Tod website