Lawyer and author. Born in Geelong in Australia, and educated at the school in the town of his birth and at Melbourne University, he was admitted to practice law in the State of Victoria in 1902, and was called to the Bar in 1909 at Gray's Inn in London. He spent the early part of his career as a judge in British East Africa, but was the Chief Justice of Cyprus from 1927 to 1930, and of Trinidad and Tobago from 1930 until 1936. He was knighted in 1931. His chief recreation was field ornithology, and he was the author of three books on this subject: one on the birds of the District of Geelong (1914), one on Nyasaland Birds (1930); and one on the birds of Trinidad and Tobago (1934).
Lawyer and author. Born in Geelong in Australia, and educated at the school in the town of his birth and at Melbourne University, he was admitted to practice law in the State of Victoria in 1902, and was called to the Bar in 1909 at Gray's Inn in London. He spent the early part of his career as a judge in British East Africa, but was the Chief Justice of Cyprus from 1927 to 1930, and of Trinidad and Tobago from 1930 until 1936. He was knighted in 1931. His chief recreation was field ornithology, and he was the author of three books on this subject: one on the birds of the District of Geelong (1914), one on Nyasaland Birds (1930); and one on the birds of Trinidad and Tobago (1934).
Inscription
In memory of
Charles Frederic Belcher, Kt.
Eldest son of George Frederic Belcher
and his second wife Frederica Bayly Thorne.
Born at Merchiston Hall, Geelong, 11 July 1876.
Died 8 February 1970.
It is he that hath made us
and not we ourselves.
The epitaph is from Psalm 100, Verse 3.
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