Gershon Collier

Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier
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 by	Christopher 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 by	Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Succeeded by	Christopher Okoro Cole
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
	In office; February 17, 1967 – March 21, 1967
Preceded by	Sir Samuel Bankole Jones
Succeeded by	Banja Tejan-Sie
Personal details
Born	February 16, 1927; Freetown
Died	May 25, 1994 (aged 67); New York City
Spouse	In 1954 he married Fashn Dora
Children	one daughter
Parents	Samuel Adolphus Collier (father); Maria Jeanette Collier (mother);
Education	CMS Grammar School and Fourah Bay College
Alma mater	studied law, M.A., B.C.L., B.L.. LL.M., J.S.D. at New York University University.

Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier was a Sierra Leonean diplomat, chief justice of Sierra Leone and educator.

Career

He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London
In 1958 when Albert Margai left the Sierra Leone People's Party, Gershon Collier was one of the supporters and was a member of that People's National Party's first executive committee.
In 1961 he became Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
On October 16, 1963 he was designated concurrently ambassador in Washington, D.C. war he was concurrently accredited from November 20, 1963 til February 17, 1967.
He got in contact with Gamal Abdel Nasser who became Godparent of his son Gamal.
In 1967, Albert Margai arranged his nomination as chief justice of Sierra Leone.
But Albert Margai lost the election in 1967 and Collier lost his office as chief justice.
In 1967 when the Siaka Stevens government followed Collier migrated to New York City where he took a teaching appointment at New York University.^[2]