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| name = Sir Harry Garner | image = SirharryandLadyGarner.JPG | image_size = | caption = Sir Harry and Lady Garner | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1891|11|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date|1977|8|7|df=yes}} | death_place = | death_cause = | residence = | other_names = | known_for = Expert of oriental art | education = | employer = British government | occupation = Scientist | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | nationality = British }} Sir Harry Mason Garner {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CB|FRAeS}} (1891–1977) was a British aerodynamicist who was also notable as an expert on, and collector of, oriental ceramics. BiographyGarner was one of three boys and a daughter. His eldest brother, William Edward (1889–1960) was born in Hugglescote in Leicestershire and became an expert in explosives. His other brother Frederic Horace (1893–1964) became a chemistry professor. Harry was educated at Market Bosworth Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He worked for the British government on aerodynamics leading a group at Felixstowe on marine aviation before becoming chief scientist at the Ministry of Supply.[1] Meanwhile, he became a noted expert and collector of oriental art. He started by collecting Chinese blue and white porcelain, and also wrote on Chinese lacquerware, especially carved lacquer, and published on these and other subjects. In 1954 he recognised the two vases now known as the David Vases as the only fourteenth century blue and white porcelain then known.[1] Garner and his wife made donations of furniture.[2] He was a friend of Sir Percival David. Both of these made substantial donations to the British Museum. Amongst Garner's collection was the Kakiemon elephants.[3] HonoursHarry Garner was appointed CB in the King's Birthday Honours of 1948[4] and was knighted KBE in the New Year Honours of 1951.[5] He was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. References
1. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=nPppyXCj1dIC&pg=PA194&dq=%22sir+harry+garner%22&hl=en&ei=jb6ETMWuEY2FOOeQ6JcO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22sir%20harry%20garner%22&f=false Collectors, collections and museums: the field of Chinese ceramics...], Stacey Pierson, p.194, accessed 6 September 2010 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Garner, Harry Mason}}{{UK-scientist-stub}}2. ^EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS FROM RYÜKYÜ/OKINAWA, Josef KREINER, Bonn, accessed 6 September 2010 3. ^[https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/p/pair_of_porcelain_model_elepha.aspx Kakiemon elephants], British Museum, accessed 6 September 2010 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=38311 |date=10 June 1948 |supp=y |page=3367}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=39104 |date=1 January 1951 |supp=y |page=10}} 13 : 1891 births|1977 deaths|Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge|Aerodynamicists|People associated with the British Museum|British orientalists|British ceramists|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society|Historians of East Asian art|People from Hugglescote|20th-century ceramists |
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