G. M. Paterson was a British barrister and politician.
[1] He was the Attorney General in Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) government which was ruling the Gold Coast under British rule prior to 1957.
[2] He continued in the Nkrumah government until August 1957 when he was replaced by Geoffrey Bing, another British barrister.
[3] Paterson studied at St John's College, Cambridge between 1924 and 1929.
He and other colleagues from the College ended up in the colonial administration of the Gold Coast.