Richard Garnett.

About Richard Garnett

Richard Garnett was an English philologist, author and librarian at the British Museum, in the museum's department that is now the British Library. Of his six children, his son Richard Garnett (1835–1906) also went into the British Library, making a name for himself as a scholar, biographer and poet. Through him are descended several writers and connections with the Bloomsbury Group, while his daughter was the diarist Olive Garnett.