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Henry Garnett, 

 English Jesuit 



Garnett, OR GARNET, HENRY 

 (1555-1606). English Jesuit. Edu- 

 cated at Winchester, he joined the 

 Jesuits in 

 1575, and in 

 1587wasmade 

 superior of 

 the English 

 province. He 

 became in- 

 volved in the 

 Gunpowder 

 Plot (q.v.) and 

 after hiding 

 in H i n d 1 i p 

 Hall, near Droitwich, gave himself 

 up, maintaining to the end that 

 he did not approve of the plot, 

 though admitting his knowledge of 

 it. He was executed in S. Paul's 

 churchyard, May 3, 1606. On an 

 empty husk of a blood-stained straw 

 picked up near the gallows a per- 

 fect image of the dead Jesuit's face 

 is said miraculously to have ap- 

 peared " as if it had been painted," 

 and " Father Garnett's straw " 

 created a great stir. 



Garnett, RICHARD (1835-1906). 

 British librarian and author. Born 

 at Lichneld, Feb. L'7, 1835. he 

 joined the 

 staff of the 

 British M u - 

 seum in 1851. 

 Becoming su- 

 perintendent 

 of the Read- 

 ing Room in 

 1875, he was 

 Keeper of 

 Printed Books 

 from 1890-99. 

 Awarded the 

 O.B. in 1895, he died on April 13, 

 1906. Among his many works are 

 Lives of Carlyle, 1887; Emerson, 

 1888; Milton, 1890; Twilight of 

 the Gods, 1888; various poems 

 and translations, and contribu- 

 tions to the Dictionary of National 

 Biography, the Encyclopaedia Bri- 

 tannica, etc. 



Gamier, ROBERT (c. 1545- 

 c. 1599). French dramatist. Born 

 at Ferte-Bernard, Gamier studied 

 law at Toulouse, and afterprac Using 

 at the Paris bar, became one of the 

 royal councillors for Le Maine. He 

 wrote a number of poems, mostly 

 lost, and was important in the 

 history of the development of 

 French classical tragedy as a fore- 

 runner of Corneille. Gamier' s 

 tragedies of Porcie, 1573, Cornelie, 

 1573, and Antigone, 1580, are 

 eloquent but dull; but his master- 

 pieces, widely acclaimed in their 

 day, were Bradamante, 1582, and 

 Les Juives, 1583. These, though 

 their inherent interest is slight, 

 show considerable poetic power 

 ai.d good dramatic technique. 

 Gamier died at Le Mans c. 1599. 



j. A. uarmer-Jragss 

 French statesman 



Garnier-Pages, Louis ANTOINE 



(1803-78). ^ French statesman. 

 Born at. Marseilles, Feb. 16, 1803, 

 he took part in 

 the revolution 

 of 1830, be- 

 came an ad- 

 vanced repub- 

 lican deputy 

 f o r Verneuil, 

 1842, and 

 joined the 

 ministry of 

 Dupont de 

 1'Eure after the 

 revolution in 1848. He was ap- 

 pointed mayor of Paris, Feb. 1848, 

 and minister of finance in March. 

 In the constituent assembly he sat 

 for the Seine dept. He 'retired 

 from public life in 1871, and died in 

 Paris, Oct. 31, 1878. 



Louis was the half-brother of 

 Etienne Joseph Garnier-Pages 

 (1801-41), a prominent radical 

 and republican orator, who sat as 

 deputy for Jsere, 1831-34, and for 

 Le Mans, 1835-41. Pron. Garnyay- 

 Pazh-ayss. 



Garnish ee (Old Fr. garnir, to 

 warn). Term used in English law. 

 Tt is the procedure whereby a 

 judgement creditor can obtain an 

 order from the court directing a 

 person who owes money to the 

 judgement debtor to pay it over to 

 the judgement creditor. For ex- 

 ample, A has a judgement for 100 

 against B. B has 1 ,000 in Cout ts' s 

 bank. A can obtain an order 

 from a master ordering Coutts's 

 to pay him 100 of B's money. 



Garo. Primitive tribe in the 

 Garo hills, S. W. Assam. Numbering 

 in 1911 187,351, they show kinship 

 with the plains Kacharis. Short, 

 dark, animistic, they practise fowl- 

 sacrifice, matriarchy, and tekno- 

 nymy naming parents after their 

 children. Headhunting has dis- 

 appeared since British rule was 

 established, after expeditions from 

 1790 to 1873. American Baptist 

 missions work successfully among 

 them. See Bodo. 



Garo Hills. District of S.W. 

 Assam. The district mainly con- 

 sists of hills, and is principally in- 

 habited by the Garos (q.v.), who 

 form about three-quarters of the 

 population. The areais3,140sq.m.; 

 that under cultivation is uncertain. 

 The principal articles of imports are 

 rice, dried fish, pigs, fowls, goats, 

 cattle, cloth and ornaments, while 

 the exports consist of cotton, 

 forest products, etc. 



Garonne. River of France. It 

 rises in the Pyrenees near Mala- 

 detta, and is for a few miles a 

 Spanish stream. It enters France 

 in the dept. of Haute Garonne, 

 and, flowing mainly N.W., reaches 

 the sea just below Bordeaux. 



There it receives the Dordogne, and 

 the two unite to form the estuary 

 of the Gironde. Its chief tribu- 

 taries are the Tarn and the Lot, 

 both on the right; others are the 

 Ariege, Save, Baise, Gers, and 

 Salat. Toulouse and Agen stand 

 on it, and it drains an area of over 

 30,000 sq. m. 



Gar Pike. Name sometimes 

 applied to the gar-fish, but properly 

 belonging to Lepidosteus osseus and 

 of the American lakes. 



Garrauli. Petty state of the Cen- 

 tral Provinces, India, in Bundel- 

 khand. Its area is 25 sq. m. Gopal 

 Singh, who opposed the British 

 occupation of Bundelkhand in 

 1803, and caused much trouble to 

 the British authorities, received a 

 pardon and a grant of this territory 

 in 1812. Pop. about 6,000. 



Garrick, DAVID (1717-79). 

 English actor. Born at Hereford, 

 of Huguenot descent, on Feb. 19, 

 1717, he was educated at Lichneld 

 grammar school, and later at 

 Samuel Johnson's academy there. 

 Becoming close friends, Johnson 

 and Garrick set off for London to 

 seek fame and fortune in March, 

 1737, arriving, according to the 

 former, with only fourpence be- 

 tween them. Until 1741 Garrick 

 engaged, with scant success, in a 

 wine business, but his main inter- 

 ests were in the stage. His play 

 Lethe was produced in 1740, and 

 in March. 1741, he made his first 

 appearance on the stage as Harle- 

 quin, appearing at Goodman's 

 Fields Theatre in Oct. as Richard 

 III. His great success in this part 

 led him to withdraw from business, 

 and he became definitely an actor 

 under his own name. 



From 1742-45 he played at 

 Drury Lane, and after a season in 



After R. E. Pine, Sal. Port. Oal. 



