Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Drake Garrard, born Charles Drake was a British land-owner and Member of Parliament for Amersham between 1796 and 1805.
Background
Charles Drake was baptised on 23 December 1755, the fourth son of William Drake, a long-standing Member of Parliament for Amersham, and his wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Raworth of London, a director of the South Seas Company. He married on 8 June 1790, Anne Barne, daughter of Miles Barne of Sotterley, Suffolk, and his second wife Mary Thornhill, a daughter of George Thornhill of Diddington, Huntingdonshire.
Career
Charles Benet Drake Garrard (born 1806) was a magistrate for Hertfordshire and was Sheriff of that county in 1839. Anne Drake Garrard. Charlotte Drake Garrard. Caroline Drake Garrard.
Louisa Drake Garrard, who had died unmarried by 1852.
Emily Drake Garrard. Married the Review John Tyrwhitt-Drake, rector of Amersham.
He was commissioned a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hertfordshire Militia of 1794. The borough of Amersham was a "Rotten Borough", in the pocket (ie under the control of) the Garrard family.
When William Drake retired at the 1796 election, Garrard stepped up as the family"s representative.
An inactive member, Garrard is not known to have spoken or voted in Parliament during his tenure as Member for Amersham. After retiring from Parliament, he served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1806 to 1813, and he died on 17 July 1817. Bibliography
Burke, J. (1837).
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, volume I.
Burke, J.B. (1852).
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, volume I.
Burke, B. (1865). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Fisher, Doctorate.R. (1986).
"Garrard, Charles Drake (1755-1817), of Lamer Park, Hertfordshire.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, educated R. Thorne.
Membership
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 18th Parliament of Great Britain.