GERARD, Gilbert (d. 1683), of Gray’s Inn and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1617, 2nd s. of Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st bt.*; bro. of Francis Gerard*. educ. G. Inn 9 May 1625;G. Inn Admiss. 176. Emmanuel, Camb. 20 Aug. 1634.Al. Cant. unm. Kntd. 18 Mar. 1661.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 233. bur. 1 Nov. 1683 1 Nov. 1683.St Mary’s, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Christenings, Marriages and Burials ed. A.J. Winsbury (1955), 404.

Offices Held

Central: clerk of council, duchy of Lancaster 9 Mar. 1640 – 10 Oct. 1653, 9 June 1654–d.Office-Holders in the Duchy of Lancaster ed. R. Somerville (1972), 30; PRO30/26/21, pp. 61–3; PROB11/381, f. 326. Commr. for alienations, 15 Mar. 1656;Add. 4184, f. 162. maimed soldiers, 17 Dec. 1660.CJ viii. 213b.

Legal: called, G. Inn 12 May 1648; ancient, 24 May 1650.PBG Inn, i. 376.

Local: commr. defence of London, 17 Feb. 1644; Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644; assessment, Mdx. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Westminster 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. sewers, Blackwall and Limehouse, Mdx. 31 Jan. 1654–19 Aug. 1667;C181/6, pp. 5, 200; C181/7, p. 28. Mdx. and Westminster 31 Aug. 1660;C181/7, p. 38. militia, Mdx. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, Mdx., Westminster 1660; subsidy, Mdx., liberty of duchy of Lancaster (Mdx.) 1663.SR. J.p. Westminster by Oct. 1660–?C220/9/4. Conservator, Gt. Level 1663–7, 1668 – d.; bailiff, 1667–9.S. Wells, Hist. of the Drainage of the Gt. Level (1830), i. 456–63.

Colonial: dep. gov. Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. 1664 – 65, 1667 – 70, 1673, 1676 – 77, 1679–83-d.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J.H. Lefroy (1879), ii. 237, 283, 310, 434, 450, 473, 485, 487, 507, 540; H.C. Wilkinson, The Adventurers of Bermuda (1958), 398.

Parlimentarian

GERARD, Gilbert I (c.1618-83), of Gray’s Inn and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

: of Gray’s Inn and Mdx., Harrow-on-the-Hill.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GERARD, Gilbert (d. 1683), of Gray’s Inn and Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mdx.

Will

9 Feb. 1682, pr. 4 Dec. 1685.PROB11/381, f. 325v.

Estates

in 1650, Gilbert and Francis Gerard purchased from the Bedford Level Adventurers a quarter lot (1,000 acres) in the Gt. Level.F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker, Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns 1658 (Cambridge, 2016), 61. In 1659, Gerard referred to his ‘Irish lands in the barony of Slaney [Slane, co. Meath]’.Eg. 2648, ff. 328-9. In 1670, inherited his fa.’s chambers in Gray’s Inn.PROB11/332, f. 288. In 1673, acquired a share of land in Paget’s Tribe, Bermuda.Som. RO, DD/BR/ely/2/2. At d. estate inc. fenland in the Gt. Level and a ‘share of land, interest and estate’ in Bermuda.PROB11/381, f. 326; TSP v. 475.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

the Little Almonry, St Margaret, Westminster (1659).Eg. 2648, f. 328.

Religion

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