Charles Cyril Gerahty

Charles Cyril Gerahty (17 June 1888 – 6 June 1978) was a British colonial judge who became Chief Justice of Trinidad.

He was born near Epping, Essex, the second son of civil servant Charles Echlin Gerahty, of a family from Dungannon, County Tyrone.

He entered the Middle Temple in 1906 to study law and was called to the bar on 23 June 1909.[1] After military service in the First World War he joined the British Colonial Legal Service and served in a judicial capacity in Cyprus before being appointed Attorney General there in 1926.[2] In 1932 he moved to the Straits Settlements as a puisne judge and in 1934 to Malta as Legal Advisor to the government there. From 1937 to 1943 he was Chief Justice of Trinidad.[3]

He was knighted in the 1939 Birthday Honours.[4]

He died in Sussex in 1978. He had married Ethel Murray in 1915; their son, born in Cyprus, was Colonel Peter Gerahty.

References
  1. "Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple" (PDF). Middle Temple. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  2. "Former Attorneys General". Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  3. "No. 34397". The London Gazette. 11 May 1937. p. 3108.
  4. "No. 34633". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1939. p. 3853.
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