Gerald b gardner biography

Gerald Brousseau Gardner () was an English hereditary Witch and allegedly responsible for reviving Witchcraft in the modern Western world.

He was born in Blundellands, near Liverpool, England, on June 13,

His father served as a justice of the peace, being a member of a family in the timber trade business.

The family was of Scottish descent, tracing its roots to a woman named Grissell Gardner who had been burned as a Witch in at Newburgh.

Gardner&#;s grandfather marred a woman who was supposedly a Witch and some of his distant relatives assumedly possessed psychical abilities.

Gardner&#;s family tree included as well mayors of Liverpool, and Alan Gardner, a naval commander and later vice admiral and peer, who later earned distinction as the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet who helped to prevent the invasion of Napoleon in

Gerald was the second of three sons, and suffered severely with asthma when young.

To alleviate his condition his nurse Josephine «Com» McCombie con