James Clerk Maxwell Garnett
Educationist, barrister, peace campaigner
About James Clerk Maxwell Garnett
Lived 1880 – 1958 (aged 77–78). James Clerk Maxwell Garnett was a writer, peace activist, barrister and scientist.
James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (13 October 1880 – 19 March 1958), commonly known as Maxwell Garnett, was an English educationist, barrister, peace campaigner and physicist. He was Secretary of the League of Nations Union.
Personal life In 1910, Garnett married Margaret Lucy Poulton, daughter of the evolutionary biologist Sir Edward Poulton FRS, in Headington, Oxford. after a funeral at St Helen's Church his body was cremated at Southampton and his cremated remains were then set in the transept floor of the church.
Honours Garnett was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
Selected publications Journal papers
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Educationist, barrister, peace campaigner (1880–1958)
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James Clerk Maxwell Garnett was born in 1880.
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James Clerk Maxwell Garnett was a writer, peace activist, barrister and scientist.
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