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Gershon Collier

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Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier
Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations
of  Sierra Leone
to  United Nations
In office
1961 – February 17, 1967
Succeeded byChristopher Okoro Cole
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States [es]
of  Sierra Leone
to  United States
In office
November 20, 1963 – February 17, 1967
Preceded byRichard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Succeeded byChristopher Okoro Cole
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
In office
February 17, 1967 – March 21, 1967
Preceded bySir Samuel Bankole Jones[1]
Succeeded byBanja Tejan-Sie
Personal details
Born(1927-02-16)February 16, 1927
Freetown
DiedMay 25, 1994(1994-05-25) (aged 67)
New York City[citation needed]
SpouseFashn Dora (m. 1954)
Children2
Parents
  • Samuel Adolphus Collier (father)
  • Maria Jeanette Collier (mother)
EducationCMS Grammar School and Fourah Bay College
Alma materstudied law, M.A., B.C.L., B.L.. LL.M., J.S.D. at New York University University.

Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier (February 16, 1927 – May 25, 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole diplomat, chief justice of Sierra Leone and educator. His granddaughter is WNBA player Napheesa Collier.

Career

References

  1. ^ Samuel Bankole Jones Samuel Bankole Jones
  2. ^ Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, p. 38