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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 | |
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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 71–72) | (aged
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 |
Sherard 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]
Sherard 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]
In 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:
Sherard died at the age of 71 and was buried at Whissendine on 4 March 1695.[6]
Through 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]
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