Gerald Fitzmaurice was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 1964 and 1973 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice between 1960 and 1973, before becoming a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in 1974.
16 Facts About Gerald Fitzmaurice
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was born on 24 October 1901, the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice and Mabel Gertrude Gray, in Storrington, Sussex.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice studied at Malvern College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1924.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice took a first in both parts of the law tripos in 1923 and 1924.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1925 and worked as a legal advisor to the Foreign Service in 1929.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was seconded to the Ministry of Economic Warfare as a legal advisor from 1939 to 1943, where he was tasked developing an Allied legal network to restrict Germany's seaborne trade.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice spent time as the Second Legal Advisor at the Foreign Office from 1945 until 1953, having been invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1946.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was part of the in 1946 and again from 1948 to 1949.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was the UK Counsel to the International Court of Justice at The Hague between 1948 and 1954.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice served as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office between 1953 and 1960.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was a member of the International Law Commission of the UN between 1955 and 1960 and contributed to the four Geneva Convention of the Law of the Sea adopted in 1958.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was the Special Rapporteur on the law of treaties.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 1954 and 1980.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice was made a Knight Grand Cross of Order of St Michael and St George in 1960, and in 1961 was elected a Bencher of Gray's Inn.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice married Alice Evelina Alexandra Sandberg on 15 September 1933 and the couple had two sons.
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Gerald Fitzmaurice died in London on 7 September 1982 at the age of 80.