Early Life
Henry Garnet was born some time around July 1555 at Heanor in Derbyshire, son of Brian Garnet and Alice Jay. He had at least five siblings: two brothers, Richard and John, and three sisters, Margaret, Eleanor and Anne, who each became nuns at Louvain. Henry studied at the grammar school in Nottingham where, from 1565, his father was master. Following his election as a scholar on 24 August 1567, in 1568 he entered Winchester College, where he apparently excelled. His love of music and "rare and delightful" voice were complemented by an ability to perform songs without preparation, and he was reportedly also skilled with the lute. Father Thomas Stanney wrote that Garnet was "the prime scholar of Winchester College, very skilful in music and in playing upon the instruments, very modest in his countenance and in all his actions, so much that the schoolmasters and wardens offered him very great friendship, to be placed by their means in New College, Oxford."
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