Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner

The Lord Gardiner
Lord Gardiner in 1977
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
16 October 1964 – 19 June 1970
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byThe Lord Dilhorne
Succeeded byThe Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
15 January 1964 – 7 January 1990
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Gerald Austin Gardiner

(1900-05-30)30 May 1900
London, England
Died7 January 1990(1990-01-07) (aged 89)
London, England
Political partyLabour
Spouses
  • Lesley Trounson
    (m. 1925; died 1966)
  • (m. 1970)
Children1
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, CH, PC, QC (30 May 1900 – 7 January 1990) was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970. In that position he embarked on a programme of reform, most importantly setting up the Law Commission in 1965.[1]

  1. ^ Marsh, Norman S. (2004). "Gardiner, Gerald Austin, Baron Gardiner (1900–1990), lord chancellor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40090. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)