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Gerald Brosseau Gardner (June 13 1884 - February 12 1964) was a British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, writer, and occultist who published some of the definitive texts for modern Wicca, which he was instrumental in founding.
Life
Gardner was born in Crosby, near Liverpool, England to a well-off family who had in their service Josephine "Com" McCombie, an Irish nursemaidhttp://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/g/gardner_gerald_b.html. The family business was Joseph Gardner & Sons, the Empire's oldest and largest importer of hardwood. Gardner, who had asthma at the time was suffering and his nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates in the Continent. Com eventually settled in Asia, where Gardner stayed for a large portion of his young-adult life.
Beginning in 1908 he was a rubber planter, first in Borneo and then in Malaya. After 1923 he held civil service posts as a government inspector in Malaya. In 1936, at the age of 52, he retired to England. He published an authoritative text, Keris and other Malay Weapons (1936), based on his field research into southeast Asian weapons and magical practices.
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