GARRARD (GARRETT), George (1579-at least 1650), of The Strand, Westminster; later of the Charterhouse, Clerkenwell, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 9 Nov. 1579,Cent. Bucks. Stud. Dorney par. reg. 3rd s. of Sir William Garrard (d.1607) VCH Bucks. iii. 223. of Dorney Court, Bucks. and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Rowe, Merchant Taylor, of Hackney, Mdx., ld. mayor of London 1568-9. Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc. lviii), 61; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. i), 5. educ. Merton, Oxf. 1594, BA 1597, MA 1603, incorp. Camb. 1607. Al. Ox. m. lic. 3 May 1625, London Mar. Lics. ed. J. Foster, 528. Elizabeth (d. by 1635), CSP Dom. 1635, p. 384. da. of Thomas Swallow, yeoman, of Saffron Walden, Essex, 1s. PROB 11/107, f. 31; PROB 11/243, ff. 326v-7. Ordained 1635. CSP Dom. 1635, p. 384. d. aft. 1650. PROB 11/243, f. 327.

Offices Held

Fell. of Merton 1598–1610; Reg. Annal. Coll. Merton ed. J.M. Fletcher (Oxf. Hist. Soc. n.s. xxiv), 327; master of the London Charterhouse 1638–50; C115/108/8623; Strafforde Letters ed. W. Knowler (1739), i. 361; ii. 152; R. Smythe, Hist. Charterhouse (1808), p. 236. j.p. Mdx. 1638; C231/5, p. 318. commr. piracy, London 1639, C181/5, f. 131. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1639–44. C181/5, ff. 131, 213v, 231v.

Gent. of the Privy Chamber extraordinary to Prince Henry 1610–12; Harl. 642, f. 241; (Anon.) Govt. of Royal Household (1790), p. 324. servant to William Cecil*, 2nd earl of Salisbury 1614–?28, SP14/64/68. to Algernon Percy*, Lord Percy ?1628 – 35, chaplain 1635–8. A.J. Taylor, ‘Royal Visit to Oxf. 1636’, Oxoniensia, i. 151.

Member, Virg. Co. 1612. A. Brown, Genesis of US, ii. 546.

Parlimentarian

GARRARD (GARRETT), George (1579-at least 1650), of The Strand, Westminster; later of the Charterhouse, Clerkenwell, Mdx.

Main residences: The Strand, Westminster; the Charterhouse, Clerkenwell, Mdx.

Garrett

Author

S.K.A.B.

R.C.L.S.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

GARRARD (GARRETT), George (1579-at least 1650)