GERARD, Philip (1665-1733)

Philip Gerard, who succeeded in the barony but did not inherit the family’s landed estates, was educated as a Catholic. He was admitted into the Society of Jesus in September 1684. He was ordained in 1693, and for the following decade and a half served in a number of continental Europe’s Catholic colleges. He remained on the continent for the rest of his life, apart from brief spells in England between 1726 and 1728, and again in 1730. G. Holt, English. Jesuits 1650-1829 (Cath. Rec. Soc. lxx), 100. He died on 4 May 1733, at which time the title was extinguished.