High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, CH, QC, PC (30 May 1900 - 7 January 1990), was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms as any Lord Chancellor had done before or since. In that position he embarked on a great program of reform, most importantly setting up the Law Commission in 1965.