Gerard, who was Attorney General to Elizabeth I of England 1559–1581. He is said to have obtained the estate of Gerard's Bromley, through a court intrigue, from the Catholic Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn (father of the Jesuit John Gerard), as the price for which the knight bought off the prosecution against him for adhering to Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1603 Gilbert's son Thomas Gerard, uncle of Richard, was made Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, County Stafford. Richard's third son, Philip Gerard (born 1 December 1665), having entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1684, unexpectedly became the seventh and last Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley (12 April 1707, O.S.), following the deaths of various cousins and older brothers. Philip never claimed the title, and gave up all rights to the estates for a small yearly pension of £60, being obliged to leave the country by the action of a near connection, the Duke of Hamilton, who advertised the reward of £1,000 for his arrest as a priest. (The four lords who have been among the English Jesuits all lived at the same time. Philip Gerard (d. 1733) was the contemporary of Father Gilbert Talbot (d. 1743), who became Earl of Shrewsbury in 1717; also of Father William Molyneux (d. 1754), who was Viscount Sefton in 1745; also of Father Charles Dormer (d. 1761), who was Baron Dormer in 1728.) Notes References Attribution 1635 births 1680 deaths English Roman Catholics Deaths from typhus Infectious disease deaths in England English people who died in prison custody Victims of the Popish Plot People from the Borough of Stafford