James Clerk Maxwell Garnett

James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958) was an English educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner. He was Secretary of the League of Nations.[1]

Maxwell Garnett was born on 13 October 1880 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, England.[2] He was awarded scholarships at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1908. He was an examiner at the UK Board of Trade (1904–12), Principal at the Manchester College of Technology (1912–20), and Secretary of the League of Nations (1920–38). Garnett was awarded a CBE in 1919.

Personal life

In 1910, Maxwell Garnett married Margaret Lucy Poulton, daughter of the evolutionary biologist Sir Edward Poulton FRS, in Headington, Oxford.[3] They had six children. The Garnetts lived at 37 Park Town, North Oxford, from 1939 until 1955, when they moved to the Isle of Wight.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Garnett, (James Clerk) Maxwell". The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. II: G–M. Oxford University Press. 1992. p. 1106.
  2. ↑ "Garnett, (James Clerk) Maxwell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004–14.
  3. ↑ "James Clerk Maxwell (Maxwell) Garnett 1880–1958". Links – Genealogy. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Symonds, Ann Spokes (1998). "Families". The Changing Faces of North Oxford. Book One. Witney: Robert Boyd Publications. pp. 81–83, 95–96. ISBN 1-899536-25-6.

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