Background
Anthony Garner was born on 28 February 1927 in Liverpool, England.
Anthony Garner was born on 28 February 1927 in Liverpool, England.
He was educated at Liverpool College.
Garner first worked for the Conservative Party as an organiser for the Young Conservatives in Yorkshire in 1948. He revived the membership by organising fundraising weekends at Filey Holiday Camp. By 1951, he became a Conservative Party agent in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
He worked on the campaigns of Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan in 1959 and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964.
Later, he worked as an agent for London at the Conservative Central Office. He served as the Director of Organisation from 1976 to 1988.
He escaped unscathed from the Brighton hotel bombing. He served as the Director of Campaigning from 1992 to 1998.
He also served on the Boards of Directors of the Carroll Anglo-American group, the Carroll Aircraft Corporation and the Farnborough Aerospace Development Corporation.
He served as a Governor of his alma mater, Liverpool College, and as President of the Old Lerpoolian Association. He received a knighthood in 1984. He died on 22 March 2015.
He was eighty-eight years old.