GERARD, Philip (1665-1733)

GERARD, Philip (1665–1733)

suc. bro. 21 Apr. 1707 as 7th Bar. GERARD of Gerard’s Bromley

Never sat.

b. 1 Dec. 1665, 3rd s. of Richard Gerard of Hilderstone, Staffs.;1 bro. of Charles Gerard, 6th Bar. Gerard of Gerard’s Bromley. educ. St Omer Coll. ?-1684; Watten, 1684-5, Liège, 1686-7, 1687-9.2 unm. d. 4 May 1733.

Associated with: Hilderstone, Staffs. and St Omer, France.

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 1730.3 He died on 4 May 1733, at which time the title was extinguished.

R.D.H./B.A.

  • 1 G. Ormerod, Hist. of the County Palatine and City of Chester, ii. 653.
  • 2 G. Holt, St Omers and Bruges Colleges, 1593-1773 (Cath. Rec. Soc. lix), 114.
  • 3 G. Holt, English. Jesuits 1650-1829 (Cath. Rec. Soc. lxx), 100.