Sir (Hugh) Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake DL JP (22 May 1881 – 24 October 1964) was a businessman, zoo owner and author.

[1] Tyrwhitt-Drake was a director of several companies, including the Medway Lower Navigation Company, and was heavily involved in local politics, serving on the council of the Borough of Maidstone for 48 years and as its mayor twelve times.

[1][4] From 1930 he was an honorary Freeman of the borough and in 1936 was knighted for political and public services to the County of Kent.

[7] He lived at Cobtree Manor, Sandling, where he used part of his estate to house his private zoo – the largest in Great Britain – in which he kept lions, tigers, bears and elephants.

[1] As mayor, he was a major benefactor to the town of Maidstone, establishing the carriage museum that bears his name in 1946[9] and donating the buildings of the College of All Saints in 1950.