Gerald Cash

The Most Honourable Sir Gerald Cash GCMG GCVO OBE
3rd Governor-General of the Bahamas
In office 22 January 1979 – 25 June 1986
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Lynden Pindling
Preceded by	Milo Butler
Succeeded by	Henry Milton Taylor
President of the Senate of the Bahamas
In office 1972–1973
Prime Minister	Lynden Pindling
Preceded by	Leonard Knowles
Succeeded by	Doris Sands Johnson
Personal details
Born	Gerald Christopher Cash (1917-05-28)28 May 1917
Died	6 January 2003(2003-01-06) (aged 85)
Spouse	Dorothy Long
Children	3

Sir Gerald Christopher Cash GCMG GCVO OBE (28 May 1917 – 6 January 2003) was the third governor-general of the Bahamas from 1979 to 1986.^[1]

Cash was born in Nassau and attended Eastern Senior High School and Government High School from which he graduated at 15. Cash was called to the Bahamas Bar in 1940 and to the English Bar at the Middle Temple in 1948.^[2]

In 1949, Cash was elected as an MP to the House of Assembly. Cash served as a member of the Executive Council from 1958 to 1962 and a Senator from 1969 to 1979. In 1964, Cash was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.^[3]

Cash served as Milo Butler's Deputy Governor General on 5 occasions from 1973 to 1976. Cash was appointed Acting Governor-General in 1976 and, in 1977, Cash was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).^[3]

Cash was appointed Governor-General in 1979.^[2]

In 1980, Cash was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) and, in 1985, Cash was knighted Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO).

Cash served as Governor-General until his retirement in 1986. Cash is the longest serving Governor General in the history of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Sir Gerald Cash died in 2003 at the age of 85 from a stroke. Cash and his wife, (the former) Dorothy Long, had two sons and one daughter.^[3]