Joseph John Saville Garner, Baron Garner GCMG[1] (14 February 1908 – 10 December 1983) was a British diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner to Canada from 1956 to 1961.
He won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read Modern and Mediaeval Languages.
In June 1954 he was working as Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
[4] At the time he was serving as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Commonwealth Relations Office.
[5] Garner was made a life peer on 21 February 1969, being created Baron Garner, of Chiddingley in the County of Sussex, and assuming his seat in the House of Lords.