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Rh Gerrard was a younger son of William Gerrard, of Ince, in the parish of Wigan, gent., and younger brother of Thomas Gerrard of the same place, and of James Gerrard of Astley, from whom the Lords Gerrard of Bromley in Staffordshire descended.

On 22nd October, 1522, a grant was made out presenting Ric Gerard, clk., to the church of Gropnall (Grappenhall) Cov. and Lich. Dioc, vice Simon Byron, clk., deceased, in the King's gift by the minority of Henry, son and heir of John Byron. He rebuilt or restored the church of Grappenhall in Cheshire in 1539, and his arms, azure, a lion rampant ermine, crowned or, may still be seen in some very old glass in one of the windows of the old rectory house there." James Gerrard of Astley (the second son of William Gerrard of Ince), in his will, printed by the Chetham Society, makes his "brother Ric. Gerrrard, psonparson [sic] of gropēhall" one of his executors.

In 33 Hen. VIII., 1542, Richard Gerrard was admitted parson of Bangor Monachorum, by reason that William Knight was made bishop of Bath and Wells, by presentation of the King, patron jure prerogativæ, Gerrard's composition for tenths and