GERARD, Charles (c. 1659-1707) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1659, 1st s. and h. of Richard Gerard, of Hilderstone, Staffs.; bro. of Philip Gerard* [1710], 7th Bar. Gerard of Gerard’s Bromley. educ. St Omer Coll. by 1677-at least 1678. G. Holt, St Omers and Bruges Colleges, 1593-1773 (Cath. Rec. Soc. lix.) 112-14. m. Mary (d. Sept. 1716), Hist. Reg. (1716), i. 543. da. of Sir John Webb, bt. of Oddstock, Wilts. s.p. suc. fa. 11 Mar. 1680. d. by 15 or 21 Apr. 1707; Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 160. will 14. Mar. 1706, pr. 23 Nov. 1708. TNA, PROB 11/504.

Offices Held

Freeman, Preston 1682, Liverpool 1690; dep. lt. Lancs. 1687–9, CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 122; HMC Kenyon, 188. Wales (12 counties), Herefs., Mon. 1689–96; TNA, SP 44/165; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 268. recorder, Chester 1688–9; Longleat, Bath mss, Thynne pprs. xliii. ff. 194–5. ld. lt., Lancs. 1689 – d., N. Wales 1696 – d.; custos rot., Lancs. 1689 – d., Mont. 1700 – d.; butler, Lancs. 1689 – d.; constable, Liverpool Castle 1689 – d.; steward, Blackburn hundred, Tottington and Clitheroe, 1689 – 90; v. adm. Cheshire and Lancs. 1691 – d., N. Wales 1696 – d.; commr. superstitious uses, Lancs. 1693; col. militia ft., Lancs. and Denb. by 1697–d. Eg. 1626, ff. 25, 58.

Lt. col. Ld. Gerard’s Regt. of Horse Feb. 1678 – Jan. 1679; col. regt. of horse, June – Sept. 1679, Oct. – Dec. 1688, 1694 – d.; maj. gen. 1694.

Envoy extraordinary, Hanover Aug. – Sept. 1701.

Parlimentarian

GERARD, Charles (c. 1659-1707)

Associated with: Hilderstone, Staffs.

Author

Harrison,Richard

Adams, Beverly

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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