Education and Professional Career
Edward Garnier was born in Germany, the youngest son of Colonel William d'Arcy Garnier (3rd son of Brigadier-General Alan Garnier CB MBE MC) and the Hon Lavender née de Grey (eldest daughter of the 8th Baron Walsingham) and was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern history in 1974, proceeding MA in 1976. He went on to study at the College of Law at Chancery Lane in the City of London.
Garnier was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1976 and is a practising barrister specialising in libel. In 1995 he took silk (Queen's Counsel) and was appointed as a Crown Court Assistant Recorder in 1998 and as a Recorder (part-time Circuit Judge) in 2000.
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