Gerald Alfred Thesiger

The Hon. Sir Gerald Alfred Thesiger MBE (born 25 December 1902, died 1981) was a British High Court Judge of the Queen's Bench Division between 1958 and 1978.

In 1926, he was admitted as a barrister. He was appointed Recorder of Rye in 1937.

During World War II, he was commissioned as a Major in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, and was appointed Recorder of Hastings in 1942. He entered local government in London, initially as a member of Fulham Borough Council from 1934-37 and then of Chelsea Borough Council from 1937-58. He was Mayor of Chelsea from 1944 to 1946. He took silk as a King's Counsel in 1948 and was appointed Recorder of Southend-on-Sea in 1952. He became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1956 and served as a High Court Judge of the Queen's Bench Division between 1958 and 1978.

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