Edmund Garratt Gardner, the English scholar and writer specializing in Italian history in literature, was born in Kensington in 1869, and attended Beaumont College in Old Windsor before pursuing a science degree at University College London.
Edmund Garratt Gardner FBA (12 May 1869  27 July 1935) was an English scholar and writer, specializing in Italian history and literature. Gardner was born in Kensington in 1869, the fifth of six children of John Gardner, a member of the stock exchange, and his wife Amy Vernon Garratt. He attended Beaumont College in Old Windsor before starting a science degree at University College London. 
