GERRARD, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1560-1621), of Bryn, Lancs.

b. c. 1560, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Gerrard† of Bryn, and Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir John Port† of Etwall, Derbys.VCH Lancs. iv. 144; Bibliographical Dict. of Eng. Catholics ed. J. Gillow, ii. 433-4. educ. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1575 aged 15; Clement’s Inn, I. Temple 1579; Al. Ox.; I. Temple database of admiss. embassy, Paris, 1585. E.B. Goodacre, ‘Henry Earl of Derby’s suite on his embassy to Paris 1584/5’, Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire, xcii. 51-6. m. (1) c.1580, Cecily, da. of Sir Walter Maney of Staplehurst, Kent, 1s. 1da.; J. Foster, Lancs. Peds. (2) aft. c.1608, Mary, da. of Sir James Hawes, wid. of Sir John Smyth and Sir Robert Lee, ld. mayor of London, s.p.; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 230. (3) 19 Feb. 1614, Mary, da. of Sir William Dormer†, wid. of Anthony Browne and Sir Edmund Uvedale†, s.p. Reg. St Botolph Bishopsgate ed. A.W.C. Hallen, i. 50. suc. fa. Sept. 1601. Lancs. Fun. Certs. ed. T.W. King and F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. lxxv), 88-96. Kntd. 18 Apr. 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 101. cr. bt. 22 May 1611. C66/1942; CB, i. 21-2. d. 16 Feb. 1621. DL7/24/77. sig. Tho[mas] Gerard.