Gerald Christopher Cash

Sir Gerald Christopher Cash GCMG GCVO OBE JP (born May 28, 1917 in Nassau , Bahamas , † January 6, 2003 ) was a Bahamas politician of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), who was Governor General of the Bahamas between 1979 and 1988 .

Life

Lawyer and MP

Cash completed his school education at Eastern Senior High School and Government High School in Nassau, which he graduated with a Cambridge Senior School Certificate in 1932 . After a subsequent legal education, he received on October 25, 1940 by the Bar Association of the Bahamas ( The Bahamas Bar ) his admission as a legal advisor and attorney at the Supreme Court of the Bahamas.

After five years as a lawyer, he began additional legal training at the British Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of Middle Temple at the end of 1945 and was admitted as a barrister in Great Britain with distinction on November 17, 1948 . After his return to the Bahamas, he resumed his legal license in December 1948.

In May 1949 Cash was elected for the first time in the constituency of the Western District of New Providence as a member of the House of Assembly , and belonged to this after his re-election from 1956 to 1962. In addition, he was active between 1949 and 1963 as chairman of the board of directors of Government High School , from 1950 to 1952 as chairman of the labor board and from 1953 to 1962 as chairman of the supervisory board of Boy's Industrial School .

During this time he was between 1958 and 1962 also a member of the government council (Her Majesty's Executive Council) of the British Crown Colony at the time .

In 1960, he was beyond the magistrate (Justice of the Peace for the Bahamas) appointed. In 1962 he also acted as the official representative of the Bahamas at the independence celebrations of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago .

For his many years of service, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on January 1, 1964 as part of the New Years Honor's List .

Senator and Senate President

In 1969 Cash became a member of the Senate and was a member of it for ten years until 1979.

After serving as Vice President of the Senate between 1970 and 1972, he became Senate President and held this position until he was replaced by Doris Johnson in 1973 . From 1968 to 1973 she was the Bahamas' first female member of the government as Minister of Transport and, until 1979, she was the first woman to be President of the Senate.

Cash then acted from 1973 to September 2, 1976 on five occasions as deputy of the then Governor General, Milo B. Butler , during his absence. He was then appointed acting governor general by Queen Elizabeth II due to Butler's illness. At the Queen's Silver Jubilee , he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 . At the same time he was beaten on October 20, 1977 to Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Governor General

After the death of incumbent Butler on January 22, 1979, Cash, who was Chairman of the National Committee of the United World Colleges (UWC) between 1977 and his death , was finally appointed by the Queen as the new Governor General and held this office until his resignation on May 25 June 1988. He was succeeded by Henry Milton Taylor .

As part of the New Years Honor's List , he was also Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG) on January 1, 1980 .

In 1983 Cash, who was active as President and Vice President of numerous sports associations such as The Bahamas Olympic Association , was awarded the silver medal of the Olympic Order . On October 18, 1985 he was also Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO). In March 1996 the previous Flamingo Gardens Primary School was renamed Gerald C. Cash Primary School in his honor.

Cash, whose marriage to Dorothy E. Long resulted in a daughter and two sons, died on January 6, 2003 of complications from a severe stroke .

Web links

• Gerald Cash (bahamasnationalarchives.bs)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cynthia Barrow-Giles: Dame Doris Louise Johnson: A Bahamian Heroine, A 'First' . In this. (Ed.): Women in Caribbean politics . Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica 2011, ISBN 976-637-670-0 , pp. 67-78.
2. ↑ Doris Johnson ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (womensuffragebahamas.com)