Joseph Trounsell Gilbert

Sir Joseph Trounsell Gilbert CBE QC (30 August 1888 – 23 January 1975) was a Bermudan barrister, judge and politician who ended a distinguished legal and political career as Chief Justice of Bermuda and as President of the Legislative Council of Bermuda.

[1] Born on 30 August 1888, Trounsell Gilbert was educated at Bedford School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

He was Attorney General, and a member of the Executive Council, of Bermuda between 1938 and 1952.

[4] Sir Trounsell Gilbert retired in 1958 and died on 23 January 1975.

His great-uncle, also Joseph Trounsell Gilbert, had been attorney-general of British Guiana from 1863.