SHERARD, Bennet (1649-1701), of Whissendine, Rutland.

Sherard succeeded to the seat long held by his father (except in James II’s Parliament). An inactive Member of the Convention, he was appointed to nine committees. He was added, with his uncle, to the committee of inquiry into the delay in raising the siege of Londonderry, and also to that to consider the bill for securing the Government against disaffection. After the recess he was among those appointed to consider the bill for restoring corporations. He did not vote for the disabling clause, but later acted consistently with the Whigs, signing the Association in 1696. He was buried at Whissendine on 30 Sept. 1701. His son sat for Rutland as a Whig from 1708 to 1710, and succeeded as second Earl of Harborough in 1732.PCC 160 Dyer; The Gen. vii. 45.