Garron was an Earth con-artist who originally hailed from Hackney Wick. Garron was forced to flee Earth after he refused to sell the Sydney Opera House to a wealthy Arab.
He and his younger assistant, Unstoffe, embarked on a career as galactic swindlers, selling planets to unsuspected victims. Garron tried selling Ribos to the Graff Vynda-K using a lump of jethrik, which turned out to be the first segment to the Key to Time. When the Graff found out the truth, Garron and the Fourth Doctor were forced to work togther. Garron eventually ended up with the Graff's spaceship, filled with eighteen years of plunder, although the Doctor took the jethrik from him despite Garron's attempt to steal it back. (DW: The Ribos Operation)