Name James Maxwell | ||
James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (1880–1958) was an English educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner. He was Secretary of the League of Nations Union.
Maxwell Garnett was born on 13 October 1880 at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, England. He was awarded scholarships at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1908. He was an examiner at the UK Board of Trade (1904–12), Principal at the Manchester College of Technology (1912–20), and Secretary of the League of Nations Union (1920–38). Garnett was appointed a CBE in 1919.
Personal life
Maxwell Garnett was the son of physicist William Garnett, and was named after Garnett's friend, James Clerk Maxwell.
In 1910, Maxwell Garnett married Margaret Lucy Poulton, daughter of the evolutionary biologist Sir Edward Poulton FRS, in Headington, Oxford. They had six children. The Garnetts lived at 37 Park Town, North Oxford, from 1939 until 1955, when they moved to the Isle of Wight.