Sir Gilbert Gerard (c 1618 – 1683) supported the
Parliamentary
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cause in the
English Civil War
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, held a number of positions during
the Protectorate
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, sat in the
House of Commons in the
Convention Parliament of 1660, and was knighted shortly after the
Restoration
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.
Biography
Gerard was a younger son of
Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill
Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill (23 October 1587 – 6 January 1670), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1660. He was a supporter of the Parliamentary cause during t ...
and his wife Mary Barrington, daughter of Sir Francis Barrington. He was admitted at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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on 20 August 1634. From 1640 to 1653 he was
Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Pa ...
and was a commissioner for volunteers for Middlesex in 1644. He was a member of
Gray's Inn
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and was called to the bar in 1648. He was Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1655 and was commissioner for alienations in 1656 and for forest appeals in 1657.
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In 1660, Gerard was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Westminster
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in the
Convention Parliament.
[ He was knighted on 18 March 1661. Gerard died unmarried in 1683 and was buried at Harrow on 5 November 1683.][
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1618 births
1683 deaths
English MPs 1660
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Members of Gray's Inn
People from Lancaster, Lancashire