Life
d.1581; cousin of Gilbert Gerard, joint-treas. Gray’s Inn (d.1593);
barrister, Gray’s Inn, 1546; MP Preston, 1553, and Chester, 1555-72;
recorder of Chester, 1565-72; vice-pres. Of council of Wales, 1562; loord
chancellor of Ireland, 1576; knighted 1577; master of requesets, England,
1577; active member of Irish eccles. Commission; sent historical treatise
on Wales to Walsingham, with suggested reforms.
Works
Lord Chancellor Gerrard [sic], ‘Notes on his Report on Ireland, May
1578’, in analexta Hibernica 2 (1931), pp.93-291.
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Criticism
Andrew Hadfield, ‘Another Case of Censorship?: The Riddle of Edmund
Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland (c.1596)’,
in History Ireland (Summer 1996): 26-30
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)