Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Drake Garrard (baptized 23 December 1755 – 17 July 1817), born Charles Drake was a British land-owner and Member of Parliament for
Amersham
Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbury and from High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt.
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between 1796 and 1805.
Early life and family
Charles Drake was baptised on 23 December 1755, the fourth son of
William Drake, a long-standing Member of Parliament for Amersham, and his wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Raworth of London, a director of the South Seas Company.
Drake inherited the estate of his (great-grandmother's) cousin Benet Garrard, sixth Baronet, in 1767, and added the name Garrard to his surname (see
Garrard Baronets). He married on 8 June 1790, Anne Barne, daughter of
Miles Barne of
Sotterley
Sotterley, originally ''Southern-lea'' from its situation south of the river, Suckling, A.I., (1846). 'Sotterley', in ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk'', 2 vols (W.S. Cowell, Ipswich 1846), Ipp. 81–96(British History Onli ...
, Suffolk, and his second wife Mary Thornhill, a daughter of George Thornhill of Diddington, Huntingdonshire. Together, they had one son and five daughters:
* Charles Benet Drake Garrard (born 1806) was a magistrate for
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
and was Sheriff of that county in 1839. He married, in 185, Honora Henrietta Pauncefort Duncombe, the daughter of Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duncombe and his wife Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambert, a daughter of
Richard Lambart, seventh Earl of Cavan; Miss Pauncefort Duncombe was a sister to the first of the
Pauncefort-Duncombe baronets.
* Anne Drake Garrard.
* Charlotte Drake Garrard. She married
George Henry Cherry
George Cherry (30 August 17936 January 1848) was a Member of Parliament for Dunwich from 1820 to 1826.
Between 1829 and 1830 he was the High Sheriff of Berkshire when he was living at Denford Park. (with amendments of 1963, Public Record Office) ...
, of Denford House, Berkshire.
* Caroline Drake Garrard. She married William Dawson of St Leonard's, Berkshire.
* Louisa Drake Garrard, who had died unmarried by 1852.
* Emily Drake Garrard. Married ''the Rev.'' John Tyrwhitt-Drake, rector of Amersham.
He was commissioned a Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Hertfordshire Militia of 1794.
Member of Parliament and later life
The borough of Amersham was a "
Rotten Borough", in the pocket (i.e. under the control of) the Garrard family. When William Drake retired at the 1796 election, Garrard stepped up as the family's representative. An inactive member, Garrard is not known to have spoken or voted in Parliament during his tenure as Member for Amersham. He retired and his nephew, Thomas Tywhitt Drake, took his place as Member.
After retiring from Parliament, he served as a
Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1806 to 1813, and he died on 17 July 1817.
[Fisher (1986)]
References
Citations
Bibliography
* Burke, J. (1837)
''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry'' volume I.
* Burke, J.B. (1852)
''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry'' volume I.
* Burke, B. (1865)
''Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire''* Fisher, D.R. (1986)
"Garrard, Charles Drake (1755-1817), of Lamer Park, Herts." ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820'', ed. R. Thorne
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1755 births
1817 deaths
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