1776 - 1873 (97 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Garnier |
| Prefix |
Rev |
| Birth |
26 Feb 1776 |
Rookesbury, Hampshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 Jun 1873 |
4 Dome Alley, The Close, Winchester |
| Person ID |
I75745 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
8 Nov 2013 |
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| Notes |
- 5th son
Dean of Winchester 1840-72
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.
Members of his family, which was of Huguenot origin, long held the office of apothecary to Chelsea Hospital. Isaac Garnier (1631– 1712) was appointed in 1686; his son Isaac (1672– 1736) succeeded in 1702, and his son Thomas Garnier held the post from 1723 to 1739. The dean's grandfather, George Garnier (1703– 1763), addressed by Lord Chesterfield as 'Garnier my friend' (Garnier, 22) in a poem published in Dodsley's collection, was appointed to the lucrative sinecure of apothecary-general to the army by William, duke of Cumberland.
With the exception of one daughter, he outlived all his family of four sons— including Thomas Garnier (1809– 1863)— and four daughters.
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