Sir John Garrard, sometimes spelt Gerrard (''c.'' 1546 – 7 May 1625), was a

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merchant, a member of the

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, a Buckinghamshire landowner, and a

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for the year 1601 to 1602.

Life

Garrard was a younger son of Sir William Gerrard, Garrard, or Garret, Haberdasher, of

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, Buckinghamshire, who had bought the manor of

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in 1542, going on to serve as Lord Mayor of London in 1555.John Burke, ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1833)
p. 592
/ref> His mother was Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill, of

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, and his paternal grandfather was John Gerrard, ''alias'' Garret, of

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. He was born about 1546, if his tomb correctly recorded his age at death. His father, Sir William, died in 1571, to be succeeded by the elder son, another William Garrard. John Garrard became a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers and married Jane, the daughter of Richard Partridge, a citizen of the

, and with her had thirteen children, including John (born about 1585), Benedict, Anne, Elizabeth, Ursula, Jane (baptized 1602), and at least two other daughters, these eight surviving infancy. At least four other children died young: a son named John, who was born and died in 1597; Margaret (the twin of Jane), who was baptized in May 1602 and died in June 1603; another John, who was baptized in December 1604; and a son, Thomas. In 1593, Garrard was one of the two

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, and at

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1601 he was elected Lord Mayor of London, the term of office being for one year. Garrard sold the manor of

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to Sir William Sedley of Aylesford.George Willis, ''Willis's current notes'' (G. Willis, 1856)
p. 30 (footnote)
/ref> On 24 January 1616, Garrard's wife died; Garrard himself died on 7 May 1625, to be buried with his wife, and like his father, in the church of

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, London. A monument to him, erected by his son Benedict Gerrard, survives there,''Some account of the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the city of London: during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, 1601-1625'' (Phillimore and Co., 1897), pp. 6-7 and reads as follows. His son and heir, another Sir John Garrard, or Gerrard, was created a

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in 1623 (see

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Arms

Garrard's arms were

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ed "''

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, on a

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gules, a lion passant, argent; a

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for difference''".

References

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