GERARD, Thomas II (1560-1621), of Highley Carr and Bryn, Lancs.

b. 1560, 1st s. of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir John Port of Etwall, Derbys. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1576; I. Temple 1579. m. (1) c.1580, Cecily, da. of Sir Walter Maney of Staplehurst, 1s.; (2) aft. c.1608, Mary, da. of Sir James Hawes, ld. mayor of London, wid. of Sir John Smyth and Sir Robert Lee, ld. mayor; (3) Mary, da. of Sir William Dormer, wid. of Anthony Brown and Sir Edmund Uvedale. suc. fa. 1601. Kntd. 1603; cr. Bt. 1611.Burke, Peerage, 924; GEC Baronetage, i. 21-2; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 326.