Joseph Garner, Baron Garner

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Joseph John Saville Garner, Baron Garner (born February 14, 1908 in Muswell Hill , Middlesex , † December 10, 1983 ) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner in Canada between 1956 and 1961 and who was a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 in 1969 Became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

In 1930, Garner joined the Dominions Office , the department responsible for the self-governing colonies of the British Empire . In the following years he worked in the ministry itself, but was also employed four times at the agency in Canada. After the reorganization and renaming of the Dominions Office in the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), he worked for it and last there until 1956 as deputy undersecretary.

In 1956, Garner succeeded Archibald Nye as High Commissioner in Canada, taking on one of the most important diplomatic posts in the relationship with one of the member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. He held the post in Canada until he was replaced by Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory in 1961. He himself then became Permanent Undersecretary of State for relations with the Commonwealth in the Commonwealth Relations Office and thus successor to Alexander Clutterbuck , the was also High Commissioner in Canada between 1946 and 1952. As Undersecretary of State he was involved in the issue of clarifying the sovereignty of Rhodesia in the mid-1960s. In 1967 he also led an inter-ministerial delegation at a meeting with representatives from Great Britain, Canada and the European Economic Community (EEC).

Garner, who was also Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , became a member of the House of by letters patent dated February 21, 1969 as a Life Peer entitled Baron Garner , of Chiddingley in the County of Sussex Lords, of which he belonged until his death. At its official launch ( Introduction ) in the House of Lords on 23 April 1969 seemed Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold and William McFadzean, Baron McFadzean with.

Publications

  • Can Man Find Peace? , Ball State University, 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oxford Index
  2. ↑ Proof ( The National Archives )
  3. ↑ JRT Wood: So Far and No Further !: Rhodesia's Bid for Independence During the Retreat From Empire 1959-1965 , 2012, pp. 277 ff., ISBN 1-46693-4-077
  4. ↑ JRT Wood: 'A Matter of Weeks Rather Than Months': The Impasse Between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith: Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965-1969 , 2012, pp. 20 ff., ISBN 1-46693-4-107
  5. ↑ Proof (The National Archives)
  6. ↑ Hansard of April 23, 1969
  7. ↑ Proof of publication ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Garner, Joseph, Baron Garner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garner, Joseph John Saville, Baron Garner (full name); Saville Garner (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Muswell Hill , Middlesex
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1983