Cecil Kelsick

Cecil Arthur Kelsick TC (15 July 1920 – 27 September 2017) was a Trinidadian judge who was the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago from 1983 to 1985.

Kelsick was born in Portsmouth, Dominica. He was educated at Montserrat Grammar School from 1928 to 1937, and was awarded the Leeward Islands Scholarship in 1938. He attended King's College London where he studied Law, (LLB, 1941; AKC, 1942). He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in November 1941, and had a distinguished legal career as Crown Attorney and then Attorney General in the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. In 1957, he was appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad and Tobago.

He died on 27 September 2017, at the age of 97.