When James Garnett was born on 17 September 1843, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Garnett, was 43 and his mother, Ann Blagebrough, was 44. He married Lucy Barker in 1866, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 30 May 1903, in Little Horton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 59, and was buried in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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English (Lancashire, Westmorland, and Yorkshire): from a shortened form of the Old French personal name G(u)erinot, a diminutive of G(u)erin, a Central or Parisian Old French form of Werin or Warin (see Warren ). The development to Garnett is from the common late Middle English lowering of e to a before r + consonant.
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