 Henry Garnet ( or Garnett ) was born some time around July 1555 at Heanor in Derbyshire , son of Brian Garnet ( or Garnett ) and Alice ( née Jay ) . He had at least five siblings : two brothers , Richard and John , and three sisters , Margaret , Eleanor and Anne , all of whom became nuns at Louvain . Henry studied at the grammar school in Nottingham where , from 1565 , his father was master . Following his election as a scholar on 24 August 1567 , in 1568 he entered Winchester College , where he apparently excelled . His love of music and " rare and delightful " voice were complemented by an ability to perform songs without preparation , and he was reportedly also skilled with the lute . Father Thomas Stanney wrote that Garnet was " the prime scholar of Winchester College , very skilful in music and in playing upon the instruments , very modest in his countenance and in all his actions , so much that the schoolmasters and wardens offered him very great friendship , to be placed by their means in New College , Oxford . " 
