▶Date of birth:   5 January 1793       Place of birth: Knightsbridge, Middlesex

▶Father: George Garrard      Mother:  Matilda Gilpin

▶Spouse(s):  Frances Harriet Tull    Date(s) of marriage:    26 March 1827   Place(s) of marriage:  Bengeworth, Worcestershire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Schoolmaster

▶Lifestory: Samuel Ellis Garrard began his clerical career in Gloucestershire; he a brief while he invested in the Cheltenham property market, but apparently had no significant connection to the town. He was the son of animal artist George Garrard (see ODNB) and his wife Matilda (née Gilpin). Born in London in 1793, he matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1813, BA 1817. He took holy orders, and was ordained Deacon and Priest (both Gloucester) in 1818.

Garrard was licensed Curate of Wormington in Gloucestershire from 1818, and in the same year became Curate of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire (where he remained at Rectory House for thirty-two years, for an absentee rector). In 1827 he married Frances Harriet Tull, at Bengeworth, Worcestershire; the couple had three sons and two daughters. While he lived in Dumbleton he invested in the promising Cheltenham housing market, in 1835 providing a mortgage of £600 to allow the owner of a plot to complete a house at 35 Clarence Square, Pittville; at the start of the following year it was sold to Joseph Sandland, gent. for £1,050.

By 1851 he and his extensive household lived at Park Hall House, Salford, Warwickshire. Then aged fifty-six, he no longer had cure of souls, but took in pupils “to teach them for the Public Schools in Classics”; as well as his own family, he lodged twenty-eight pupils in his house, along with seven servants, at the time of the 1851 census. He was eventually appointed Vicar of Salford Priors, near Alcester in Warwickshire 1858-60.

Garrard died in January 1860 at Salford, days short of his sixty-seventh birthday, and was buried locally.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   [did not live in Pittville]     Moved from Pittville to:

▶Date of death:  2 January 1860      Place of death:  Salford Priors, near Alcester, Warwickshire

▶Date of burial:  7 January 1860       Place of burial:  Salford, Warwickshire

▶Notes:        ID: 5797

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden