Background
Gerald Fitzmaurice was born on October 24, 1901 in Storrington, West Sussex, United Kingdom. He was a son of Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice and Mabel Gertrude Gray.
Gerald Fitzmaurice was born on October 24, 1901 in Storrington, West Sussex, United Kingdom. He was a son of Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice and Mabel Gertrude Gray.
He studied at Malvern College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained a Bachelor of Laws in 1922.
He became a Barrister-at-Law at Gray's Inn in 1925 and worked for the Foreign Service from 1929. He spent time as the Second Legal Advisor from 1945 until 1953, having been invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1946. Also that year he was part of the United Kingdom's delegation to the United Nations Assembly.
He married Alice Evelina Alexandra Sandberg on September 15, 1933. They have two children.