11 Facts About David Garnett

David Garnett was an English writer and publisher.

David Garnett was then sent as a day boy to a prep school called Westerham, five miles from the Cearne, being expected to travel there daily on a scaled-down version of a Penny-farthing bicycle which had been owned by his uncle Arthur Garnett as a boy, wearing a beret.

In 1905, David Garnett's mother moved into a rented flat in Hampstead, from where he began to attend University College School in Gower Street, London, travelling there daily by horse-drawn tram.

David Garnett spent July and August 1910 in Germany, to learn the language, and then in October was admitted to the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, a department of Imperial College, London, to study zoology and botany, where he was taught by J B Farmer, Adam Sedgwick, and Clifford Dobell.

David Garnett ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s.

David Garnett wrote the novel Aspects of Love, on which the later Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name would be based.

David Garnett was bisexual, as were several members of the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group, and he had affairs with Francis Birrell and Duncan Grant.

David Garnett did not find out until much later that her husband had been a lover of her father.

The Garnetts lived at Hilton Hall, near St Ives in Huntingdonshire, where David Garnett had a farm with a herd of Jersey cows, an orchard, a swimming pool, sculptures, and a dovehouse.

Fanny David Garnett moved to France where she became a farmer.

David Garnett continued to write and lived there until his death in 1981.