Sir Gerard Lewis Howe, QC (3 June 1899 – 25 May 1955) was a British lawyer and judge.

[1] Howe joined the Colonial Legal Service and was appointed resident magistrate in Kenya in 1930.

[4] In 1950, he was appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong replacing Sir Leslie Bertram Gibson.

Howe fell ill in the summer of 1953 and in April 1954 returned to his home in Bullough Castle, Dublin.

A two-minute silence was also observed by Chief Magistrate Lo Hin Shing.