Tim Garden
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Air Marshal The Right Honourable The Lord Garden |
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Air Marshal The Lord Garden
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| Born |
23 April 1944 Worcester, England |
| Died | 9 August 2007 (aged 63) Hamstead, England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Air Force
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| Years of service | c. 1965–1996 |
| Rank | Air Marshal |
| Commands held |
Commandant Royal College of Defence Studies (1994–95) RAF Odiham (1985–87) No. 50 Squadron (1979–81) |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal |
| Other work | Liberal Democrat peer |
Air Marshal Timothy Garden, Baron Garden KCB, FRAeS, FRUSI, FCGI (23 April 1944 – 9 August 2007) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who later became a university professor and a Liberal Democrat politician.
Garden gained degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a pilot in the RAF for 32 years, retiring as an air marshal in 1996. He then moved to academia and was Director of Chatham House before moving to university defence research. He became an adviser to the Liberal Democrats and was their defence spokesman in the House of Lords. He was married to Susan, who was made a life peer as Baroness Garden of Frognal in September 2007.
Born in Worcester and educated at King's School, Worcester, Garden joined the Royal Air Force as a university cadet while at St Catherine's College, Oxford reading Physics. He was a member of Oxford University Air Squadron from 1962 to 1965. He was a squadron pilot on No. 3 Squadron RAF flying English Electric Canberra B(I)8 light bombers in Germany before becoming a flying instructor on Jet Provosts. He commanded a jet flying training unit, No. 50 Squadron RAF Avro Vulcan bomber squadron and a helicopter base.
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