Gerahty
Gerahty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cecil Gerahty (1888–1938), English journalist * Charles Cyril Gerahty (1888–1978), British colonial judge * Digby George Gerahty (1898–1981), English novelist * Peter Gerahty (1921–2013), British Army officer See also * Geraghty Geraghty () and the variant Garaghty are Irish surnames, it was originally written in a Gaelic form as ''Mag Oireachtaigh'' (or MacGeraghty in English), the name is derived from the word "''oireachtach''," referring to a member of an assembly. The ...

Cecil Gerahty
Cecil Echlin Gerahty (1888 – 13 May 1938) was an English journalist for the '' Daily Mail''. Born in Hampton Wick in 1888, his parents were George Marsh and his wife Laura. His younger brothers were the author Digby George Gerahty and the actor Leslie Marsh Gerahty. From 31 August 1915, Gerahty served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, with the rank of lieutenant and in 1919 he was mentioned in despatches for his services in action against enemy submarines off Gibraltar. After the war, between 1924 and 1936, he sailed from the UK to Tangier, Morocco, on eleven occasions, and also to Gibraltar in 1937. His occupation was recorded as Shipping Agent and then later in 1931 as journalist. In 1925 he was accompanied by Irene Winifred Gerahty (aged 35) and Esmond Echlin Gerahty (aged 1). His address was given as 27 Cresswell Road, Twickenham and later 12 St James Square, London. Esmond was attending Marlborough House School, Reading, in 1933. In 1937 he gave a talk on the BBC ...
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Peter Gerahty
Colonel Peter Gerahty CBE (1 September 1921 – 15 November 2013) was one of the last surviving British Army officers to have served with 6th Airborne Division in Operation Varsity on 24 March 1945: the largest airborne operation in the history of warfare, part of Operation Plunder: the Rhine Crossing in March 1945. He was later appointed a CBE for his work on combat development with the Ministry of Defence. Biography Peter Echlin Gerahty was born in Cyprus, the eldest son of Sir Charles Cyril Gerahty QC. He was educated at Malvern College, Malvern, Worcestershire. Gerahty was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in September 1941 and was posted to the 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with 9th Parachute Battalion from July 1944 to September 1944 when he transferred to the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) and joined the battalion at Bulford, Wiltshire. He served with the 2nd Ox and Bucks in ...
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Digby George Gerahty
Digby George Gerahty (3 April 1898 – 6 November 1981), who wrote under the pen-names of Robert Standish and Stephen Lister, was an English novelist and short story writer most productive during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a featured contributor to the ''Saturday Evening Post''. His novels include ''Elephant Walk'', which was later made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor. In the semi-autobiographical ''Marise'' (1950), Gerahty (writing as "Stephen Lister") claimed that he and two publicist colleagues had covertly "invented" the Loch Ness Monster in 1933 as part of a contract to improve business for local hotels; he repeated his claim to Henry Bauer, a researcher, in 1980. He was born in 1898 in Isleworth, the son of George and Laura. He was the elder brother of the actor Leslie Marsh Gerahty (better known as Garry Marsh) and the younger brother of the journalist Cecil Gerahty. He joined the Royal Airforce on 7 July 1917 and served until 15 February 1919, leaving with ...
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Charles Cyril Gerahty
Sir Charles Cyril Gerahty (17 June 1888 – 6 June 1978) was a British colonial judge who became Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago. He was born near Epping, Essex, the second son of civil servant Charles Echlin Gerahty, of a family from Dungannon, County Tyrone. He entered the Middle Temple in 1906 to study law and was Call to the bar, called to the bar on 23 June 1909. After military service in the First World War, he joined the British Colonial Legal Service and served in a judicial capacity in Cyprus before being appointed Attorney General there in 1926. In 1932, he moved to the Straits Settlements as a puisne judge and in 1934 to Malta as Legal Advisor to the government there. From 1937 to 1943, he was Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago. He was knighted in the 1939 Birthday Honours. He married Ethel Murray in 1915. Their son, born in Cyprus, was Colonel Peter Gerahty. He died in Sussex in 1978. References

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