Edmund William Garrett

Edmund William Garrett  (1 February 1850 - 4 March 1936) was an Irish-born barrister and local politician.

The only son of Henry Garrett and Emma Frances Grimshaw of Cromac House, Co. Antrim, he was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Cambridge.

He entered the Inner Temple in 1871 and was called to the bar on 30 April 1875.

He moved to Hendon, Middlesex, living at a house called 'Ardeevin', an approximation of the Irish language phrase for 'beautiful height'. He worked as a special pleader and conveyancer on the Midland Circuit, before building up a large common law practice based in the City of London. He married Fanny Andrews, of Comber, Co. Down in 1878.

From 1889-1920 he was a Metropolitan Police Magistrate sitting at the South Western, West London, Marylebone, and Bow Street Courts.

In 1889 he was elected to represent Hendon on the first Middlesex County Council, and was re-elected in 1892. When his second term ended he was chosen to serve as an alderman on the third county council in 1895. However, on the revision of the voting lists in September 1896 it emerged that although Garrett was still living at a house called 'Ardeevin', he was now resident in Epsom, Surrey. He was no longer eligible to to be a member of Middlesex County Council and resigned.

He died in Epsom, aged 86, and was buried at Epsom Cemetery on 6 March 1936. His will was proved in London in June 1936 and then proved and resealed in Belfast in August as he retained property in Northern Ireland.