Garlick arrived in
Adelaide aged 19 with his father Moses Bendle Garlick (c. 1784 – October 1859) and siblings Deborah, William (aged 15), Thomas (aged 11) aboard
Katherine Stewart Forbes from London, first landing at
Kingscote, Kangaroo Island in October 1837, just a year after the "
First Fleet of South Australia". Soon afterwards Moses Garlick, a plasterer by trade, built on the banks of the
Torrens Adelaide's first permanent dwelling; unauthorised, as surveying of the city had not been completed. Similar dwellings nearby were those of William Pritchard and Isaac French. In 1839 he built
North Adelaide's first house, "White Court House". In 1841 Moses Garlick founded a timber and building business in Kermode Street,
North Adelaide, and Daniel was practising as an architect by 1853. Daniel worked in the firm known as Moses Garlick & Son from 1841 to 1855, after which he worked on his own for a few years. Around 1850 Moses Garlick passed the timber business to a Mr Turner, and the family moved from North Adelaide to a property in
Munno Para East, dubbed "Uley" for their hometown
Uley, Gloucestershire (also Colonel
Henry Kingscote's birthplace), and later became the township
Uleybury. Moses donated an acre of land to the Baptist church and built a chapel. The family grew wheat and grapes and made wine. Garlick, whose health was not robust, took little part in the farming business. He ran his architecture practice from "Uley", later sharing an office with Smith & Cullen in nearby
Gawler. His projects included country houses, shops, churches and chapels in the city and the countryside north of Adelaide. In 1857 he opened his own office in Murray Street, Gawler. Later that year he advertised his services as a moneylender, and entered into a short-lived partnership with George Abbott (c. 1793 – 3 April 1869) (as Garlick & Abbott, He went into partnership in Register Chambers, Adelaide, in December 1868 with
William McMinn, as Garlick & McMinn, with the practice then known as Garlick & Son (1882–1891). and father of architect
Herbert Montefiore Jackman (who worked first for
English and Soward and later for Garlick and Jackman). In 1891 a partnership Jackman & Garlick was established to handle the Broken Hill practice. In June 1892 the two partnerships were combined, then dissolved in 1899 when Garlick retired.
Eric McMichael worked with the practice around 1900. A few weeks before he died in September 1902, Garlick entered into a new partnership with
Henry Evan "Harry" Sibley (c.1867–1917), which never was put into practice. Sibley, by arrangement with Mrs Garlick, continued to trade as "Garlick & Sibley" for several years then Garlick, Sibley & Wooldridge to 1910. The name "Garlick & Jackman", then "Garlick, Jackman & Gooden" (with Lancelot Gooden (with Earle Scott which was later renamed the Civic Theatre in the 1940s, before its demolition and rebuilding. ==Selected works==