SHERARD. ] 29 III. 1700. 3 and 1. P.e.vnet (Sherard), Baron Siierard ] _. . ok Leitrim [[.], 2d and vat. but only surv. h. and h.,(a) 6. '.I viscountcy. ftn( j btp 2? Oot 1677j at stapleford . .„„.. (u the peerajt I IT18 [ 1], SO Jan. 1809/1700 : was or. a Peer of Great Britain, 19 t ,, ' Oct 1711. as BARON HARBOROUGH of Harborough, co. iT'i-i LeieeHter, with a ife. rem., being ar, 31 Out. 1718, VIS- ' COUNT SHERARD OF STAPLHFORD.f b ) co. Leicester, with (only) the ordinary limitation, and finally, 8 June 1719, EARL OK RARBO ROUGH, with a like spec, rem, as the Barony. He a 1 , s.p.s. 16 Oct. 1712. aged , r >. r ), when the Viseounte.ii at Sherard of Stapleford became extinct, but the other honours devolved as below. Barony [I.] Philip (Siierard), Earl of Harborough, IV 173' 7 nr "' ^AfcON HaRBOBOUOH, also Baron Sherard of Leitrim [LJ, nephew and h. ; sue. to the British titles under the spec, retn. in their creation and to the Irish Barony as heir male of the body of the grantee. He d. 20 July 1750, aged 70. I J3 V. 1750. 5. Bknnet (Siierard), Earl of Harborough, <fcc, also Baron Siierard of Leitrim [L], 1st s. and h. ; stilled Lord Sherard from 1732 till he sue- to the peerage, aa above, 20 July 1750. Herf. s.p.m.s. 23 Feb. 1770, aged GO. [Bknnet Sherard, styled Lord Sherard, s. and b. up , d. an infant v.p. 21 Feb. 1768. Adinon. Sep. 1768.] VI. 1770. 0. Robert (Sherard), Earl of Harborough, &c, also Baron Shkraud op Leitrim [I.], next surv. hr. and h. male ; tuc. to the peerage, as above, 23 Feb. 1770. He d. 21 April 1799, aged 79, VII. 1799. 7. Pninr (Sherard), Earl of Harborough, &c, also Baron Sherard of Leitrim [I.], only s. and h. ; staled Lord Sherard from 1770 tiH he sue. to the peerage, us above, 21 April 1799. Herf. 10 Dec. 1807, aged 40. VIII. 1801. S. Robert (Sherard), Earl of Harborough, and Baron Harborough, also Baron Sherard ov Leitrim [7.], only s. and h., styled Lord Sherard from 1799 till he sue. to the peerage, as above, 10 Dec. 1807. He d. s.p. 28 July 1859, aged 61, when the Earldom of Harborough and the Barony of Harborough became extinct, but the Irish Barony devolved, apparently, ( a ) as below. J IX. 1859. 9. Philif Castell (Siierard), Baron Sherard Leitrim [I.], cousin and h. male,( c ) being s. and h. of the Rev. Philip Castell Sherard, 11. A., of Glatton, co. Huntingdon, Rector of Swinshead, in that county, by Sarah, da. of Montague James, of Hanover, in Jamaica, which Philip Inst Darned (who d. Nov. 1814 in his 47th year) was s. and h. of the Rev. Castell Sherard, M.A., Rector of Staiuby and Gunby, co. Lincoln (d. 1803, aged 70), who ( a ) Christopher Sherard, his elder br., 6. 19 June and bap. 9 July 1666, at Staple- ford, mat. at Oxford (Ex. Coll), 28 Nov. 1681, aged 15, and d, there, of a violent fever, 19 Feb. following, and was bur. 28 at Stapleford. He was " an accomplished gentleman." Fun. sermon by his tutor, Thomas Laxton, M.A, (li) " Tl le journals of the House of Lords state the dignity to have been that of viscount Stapleford and the date of the patent to have beeu 8 Nov. ; both statements prove, upon inspection of the enrolment, to be erroneous." [Courthopc.] ( c ) The right to the peerage has never beeu officially proved since 1859, but, tho' the heir male at that date was a very distant cousin to the then late Lord, his descent from the first Baron is certain, and his representation of him seems to be almost equally so. The proofs collected by James Pulman, Clarenceux, are among the private collections belonging to the College of Arms, but the pedigree has hitherto [1895] neither been placed on record there, nor proved before the House of Lords. K OF I
