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Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
Air Marshal Timothy Garden, Baron Garden , 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.
==RAF career==
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.〔(Obituary: Air Marshal Lord Garden ) The Times, 14 August 2007〕 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.〔(Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal The Lord Garden )〕 He commanded a jet flying training unit, No. 50 Squadron RAF Avro Vulcan bomber squadron and a helicopter base.〔
Garden completed his staff training with the Army, and did a postgraduate International Relations degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge.〔 He spent three years as the Director of Defence Studies for the Royal Air Force, lecturing internationally on strategic studies.〔 He was then appointed as station commander of RAF Odiham, where he flew the Westland Puma and Boeing Chinook helicopters.〔 He then spent six years at the Ministry of Defence on both the air and central staffs, including a period on the Air Force Board as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff.〔 His last MOD appointment was as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Programmes) with responsibility for long term defence programme planning for all three Services.〔 He was subsequently appointed to be Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies and was in post for the 1994 and 1995 courses.〔 He retired from the RAF in 1996 as an air marshal.〔
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