Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Baronet, of Welham Grove in Leicestershire and Exton Park in Rutland, known as Gerard Edwardes until 1798, was an English Member of Parliament.
Background
Born Gerard Edwardes, the son of Gerard Edwardes of Welham Grove and Lady Jane Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough. His father was the illegitimate son of Lord Anne Hamilton, younger son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton.
Education
He was educated at Eton and Street John"s College, Cambridge.
Career
After finishing his education, Noel became partner in a Westminster banking house. He entered Parliament in 1784 as member for Maidstone. He represented Rutland (in two spells) for well over forty years.
Initially a supporter of Pitt the Younger, he was one of a group of MPs who in 1788 tried to form a third party independent of both Pitt and Charles James Fox.
In later years, however, he was a consistent Tory. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland for 1812.
Noel married three times. Middleton later became First Lord of the Admiralty and was raised to a peerage as Lord Barham.
He died on 17 June 1813 without male issue, and Noel consequently inherited his baronetcy, while Noel"s wife inherited the peerage.
They had eighteen children: Charles Noel Noel (1781–1866), Member of Parliament, who succeeded to his father"s baronetcy and his mother"s barony, later created Earl of Gainsborough Major Horace Noel (1783–1807) Henry Robert Noel(1784–1800) William Middleton Noel (1789–1859), Member of Parliament for Rutland 1838-1840 Captain Frederic Noel (1790–1833), a naval officer Francis James Noel (1793–1854), Rector of Teston and Nettlestead in Kent Berkeley Octavius Noel (1794–1841) Leland Noel (1797–1870), Vicar of Exton Baptist Wriothesley Noel (1799–1873) Louisa Elizabeth Noel (d 1816), who married William Hoare (d 1819) Emma Noel (d 1873), who married Stafford O"Brien (d 1864) Charlotte Margaret Noel (d 1869), who married (first, in 1813) Thomas Welman and (second, in 1839) Thomas Thompson Augusta Julia Noel (d 1833), who married Thomas Babington (d 1871) Juliana Hicks Noel (d 1855), who married Samuel Phillips.
Membership
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.
4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament.
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament.
10th United Kingdom Parliament. 11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.
13th United Kingdom Parliament.
16th Parliament of Great Britain. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain.