Legal career Hosker became an
articled clerk at
Derrick Bridges & Co. in 1951, but after being admitted a
solicitor in 1956 he worked for Clifford Turner & Co., before joining the
Treasury Solicitor's Department in 1960. After several promotions, he was appointed an
under-secretary in the Department in 1982, before serving as Deputy Treasury Solicitor between 1984 and 1987. He was then Legal Adviser to the
Department of Trade and Industry until his appointment in 1992 as
HM Procurator General Treasury Solicitor and the Queen's Proctor, in which offices he served until retiring in 1995.
Post-retirement In 1998 the
Secretary of State for Defence appointed him as a trustee of the
Royal Air force Museum; he retired in 2009. and in 2001 he conducted an inquiry on behalf of the
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions into the handling of the
C W Cheney & Sons Pension Fund by the
Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority. Sir Gerald was appointed Public Inquiry commissioner in the Falkland Islands 1999-2000. Hosker died from renal failure and heart complications on 30 November 2024, at the age of 91. == References ==