Thomas Garnier
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Thomas Garnier, (1776-1873), was Dean of Winchester (1840-1872) and a botanist.
He was educated at Winchester College and Worcester College, Oxford.
Dean Garnier 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 sewage system for Winchester. The road to the pumping station was later 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.
