Thomas Garnett (physician)

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Thomas Garnett

Thomas Garnett (21 April 1766 – 28 June 1802) was an English physician and natural philosopher.

Life

Garnett was born on 21 April 1766 at

Brunonian theory. "He avoided," says his anonymous biographer, "almost all society, and it is said he never allowed himself at this period more than four hours sleep per day. He graduated in 1788, completed his medical education in London, and, returning for a short time to his parents and wrote his treatise on optics for the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1790 he practiced in Bradford and in the following year in Knaresborough and Harrogate. He published the first scientific analysis of the Harrogate waters and several schemes for the benefit of the inhabitants of Knaresborough".[1]

Lord Rosslyn built him a house at

Freemason while in Scotland.[2] He obtained great success at Glasgow, both as lecturer and physician, and in 1798 undertook the tour in the highlands of which his account was published in 1800. It is too diffuse, but was a valuable work in its day, and is interesting even now as an index to subsequent changes.[1][3]. He founded Garnethill Observatory in 1810 in Glasgow's Blythswood Hill district, on land named after him by developer William Harley. [4]

On 25 Dec. 1798 his wife died giving birth to his daughter,

typhus fever contracted at the Marylebone Dispensary where he worked. A subscription was raised, and his Royal Institution lectures were published for the benefit of his two infant daughters, one of whom was to be the poet Mrs. Catherine Grace Godwin.[1][5]

Garnett was buried in St James's Burial Ground, Euston, London (later St James's Gardens, adjacent to Euston Station). His gravestone and coffin plate were recovered during an archaeological excavation at the former 18th and 19th century burial ground, in the preparatory phases of work for the new HS2 rail line. The burial ground was used by the parish of St James's Piccadilly, off the Hampstead Road.

Garnett was a most amiable man, who fell a victim to the susceptibility of his character and the strength of his affections. Diffident of his own powers, he was enthusiastic for the discoveries and ideas of others. He had not the genius of discovery himself, but was observant and sagacious. A passage in his Highland Tour (i. 89) anticipates the modern theory of a quasi-

intelligence in plants.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Garnett 1890a, p. 7–8.
  2. ^ Thomas Garnett, the Lodge of Lights, and the Radical Enlightenment, Dr David Harrison, FPS, Philalethes - The Journal of Masonic Research & Letters, Vol 72, No 4, accessed 2020-02-19
  3. ^ Garnett 1811, p. [page needed].
  4. ^ "TheGlasgowStory: Thomas Garnett".
  5. ^ Garnett 1890b, p. 55.

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