Gordon Bisson

Sir Gordon Ellis Bisson PC (23 November 1918 – 14 November 2010) was a New Zealand Court of Appeal judge and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Educated at Napier Boys' High School, he graduated from Victoria University College with a Bachelor of Laws in 1941.

Bisson served with the RNZNVR during World War II from 1940 to 1945 aboard HMNZS Leander in the Pacific, HMS Warspite at Normandy and the Second Front, and was Mentioned in Despatches.

[1] He then served aboard HMS Nelson at sea on the Staff of Admiral Walker Commanding the Third Battle Squadron in the Far East[1] and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

In 1986, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal and sat there until he retired at age 72 in 1990.