Charles_Cyril_Gerahty
Charles Cyril Gerahty
Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 1937 to 1943
Sir Charles Cyril Gerahty (17 June 1888 – 6 June 1978) was a British colonial judge who became Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago.
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 and Tobago.[3]
He was knighted in the 1939 Birthday Honours.[4]
He married Ethel Murray in 1915. Their son, born in Cyprus, was Colonel Peter Gerahty. He died in Sussex in 1978.