and the Oxcombe Estate, Lincolnshire in 1985. He endowed a scholarship at the University of Hertfordshire in Engineering and funded a Charitable Trust in his name. Gerard was made High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1981. He died on 15 August 1987 leaving a notable collection of art including picture by Canaletto, Guardi, Van Ruysdael, Van de Capella, Turner and Gainsborough. Sir Francis Hugh Cecil Newman, 4th Baronet (born 1963) is the current holder of the baronetcy. The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Thomas Ralph Gerard Newman (born 1993), eldest son of Sir Francis Newman. References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England