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Paul Johnson Garner, engineer inventor, was born in Manor Avenue, Brimington, Derbyshire UK on 12th January 1936. After attending primary schools in Brimington, he was a scholar at Chesterfield School, then at Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical school, Rochester, Kent. He graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from Southampton University in July 1957. Garner then worked as a designer at De Havilland Aircraft Co, Hatfield and Toronto, Canada. In 1959 he married Alegra Mizrahi, by whom he has three children, Abigail, Ruth and Johnson Daniel. After a similar post at Piper Aviation, Lock Haven Pennsylvania he returned to UK and joined ICI Plastics Division. Working in a team on innovative foam injection moulding, Garner filed 23 patents concerned with the process and mouldmaking between 1965 and 1971. Notable amongst these are US Patents 3,811,175;3,638,299 and 3,784,152. At a SIRA conference at City University, London, delivered paper "Design in Plastics", 19 March 1975. He delivered technical papers to the S P E congress in Washington, DC, and other conferences.