- Thomas Garnier
Thomas Garnier, (1776-1873), was Dean of
Winchester (1840-1872) and abotanist .He was educated at
Hyde Abbey School andWorcester College, Oxford . He was appointedRector ofBishopstoke ,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, 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 . Another son was Keppel Garnier, Commander in the Royal Navy. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=4tYKAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA100&lpg=RA2-PA100&dq=%22keppel+garnier%22&source=web&ots=RepUDhA6mk&sig=1bDrXim-vObSWLCm9QoS8xupnEA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PRA2-PA100,M1 The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, Arthur Edmund Garnier, 1900] ] His great-great-great-great-grandson,Martin Tod , is a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in Winchester.References
cite web
last = Simmonds
first = Joan
title = A Brief History of Bishopstoke
publisher = Bishopstoke Parish Council
url = http://www.hants.org.uk/parish/bishopstoke/history.html
accessdate = 2007-01-07Links
* [http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/parks/garnier/garnier.html Dean Garnier's Garden]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01729 National Portrait Gallery article on Dean Garnier]
* [http://www.winningwinchester.com/about/ Martin Tod website]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=4tYKAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA101&lpg=RA3-PA101&dq=%22rachel+mitford+garnier%22&source=web&ots=RenZClt8gl&sig=np3z8SkHZ_Vn93g6i2pB9Qkuh_4&hl=en#PRA3-PA101,M1 The Chronicles of the Garniers of Hampshire During Four Centuries, Arthur Edmund Garnier, 1900]
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