Stephen Herbert Gatty
Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty was a British barrister and colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of Gibraltar from 1895 to 1905.
Biography
Gatty was the son of the Rev Alfred Gatty and of Margaret Gatty. He came from a literary family: both his mother and his sister Juliana Horatia Ewing were popular children's authors. His elder brother Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty was a herald and composer, while his younger brother Charles Tindal Gatty was an antiquarian and author of note.Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Gatty was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1874, then went on the North-Eastern Circuit. He was appointed Attorney-General of the Leeward Islands in 1883, then successively served as acting Chief Justice of Antigua, Attorney-General of Trinidad, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, and Chief Justice of Gibraltar. He was made a QC for Trinidad in 1890/1891 knighted in 1904.