The Hon. Philip Sherard (17 November 1623 – 1695) was an English soldier, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1685.
Philip Sherard | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Rutland | |
| In office 1660–1685 | |
| Preceded by | Sir James Harington Thomas Waite |
| Succeeded by | Baptist Noel Sir Thomas Mackworth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 November 1623 |
| Died | 1695 (aged 71–72) |
| Spouse |
Margaret Eure
(after 1645) |
| Relations | 4, including Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough (grandson) |
| Children | Bennet Sherard |
| Parent(s) | William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard Abigail Cave |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
Early life
editSherard was born on 17 November 1623 as the younger son of William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard, (1588–1640) and his wife Abigail Cave (1593–1659).[1][2] His older brother was Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, who sat as MP for Leicestershire and served as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland.[3] His nephew was Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough.[4] His mother, the widow of Henry Tresham (with whom she had several sons), was a daughter of Cecil Cave and Anne (née Bennett) Cave.[5]
He was a student at St John's College, Oxford, in 1639, and travelled abroad in Italy in 1641.[6]
Career
editSherard went abroad with his brother shortly before the Civil War, where he became a captain in the Dutch army. He enjoyed field sports and settled at the family estate of Whissendine, Rutland, holding no local office until the Restoration.[6]
In 1660, Sherard was elected Member of Parliament for Rutland in the Convention Parliament. He was one of those proposed as Knight of the Royal Oak, and his estate had a yearly income of £600. In 1661, he was re-elected MP for Rutland in the Cavalier parliament, probably without a contest. He was re-elected in the two elections for the First and Second Exclusion Parliaments and again in 1681.[6]
In 1682, he was removed from local office, and took no further part in politics, his son Bennet replacing him as knight of the shire in the Convention.[6]
Personal life
editIn 1645, Sherard was married to Margaret Eure, widow of both John Pulteney of Misterton, Leicestershire, and a Cavalier Col. Hon. William Eure of Old Malton (son of Lord Eure), and daughter of Sir Thomas Denton of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire.[1][7] Margaret converted to Protestantism. Together, they were the parents of three sons and one daughter, including:
- Bennet Sherard (1649–1701), who was also MP for Rutland.[6]
- Philip Sherard, who married and had issue.[5]
- Denton Sherard.[5]
- Abigail Sherard (b. 1652), who married John Pickering, Esq. (1654–1703) and had issue.[8]
Sherard died at the age of 71 and was buried at Whissendine on 4 March 1695.[6]
Descendants
editThrough his son Bennet, he was a grandfather of Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough, (c. 1680–1750), who inherited the Harborough earldom through special remainder,[9] and Margaret Sherard, the wife of The Most Rev. John Gilbert, Archbishop of York.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b Visitation of the County of Rutland
- ^ "Collections Online | Abigail, Baroness Sherard". www.britishmuseum.org. British Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "SHERARD, Bennet, 2nd Baron Sherard of Leitrim [I] (1621-1700), of Stapleford, Leics". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England: Gainsborough-Oxford. Longmans, Green. p. 110. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ a b c Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1898. p. 1316. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "SHERARD, Hon. Philip (1623–95), of Whissendine, Rutland". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Memoirs of the Verney Family: Memoirs of the Verney family during the civil war ... by Frances Parthenope Verney. Longmans, Green, and Company. 1892. p. 442. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Papers of the Pickering family - Egerton of Tatton Muniments - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. University of Manchester Library. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Harborough, Earl of (GB, 1719 - 1859)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)