Samuel Gerrard
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Gerrard was born in Ireland at Gibbstown House, County Meath. The Gerrards were a prosperous Anglo-Irish family who had held Gibbstown, an estate of some 1,270 acres, since the mid 17th century, and previous to that were seated at nearby Clongill Castle.[2][3][4] Samuel was probably a grandson of the Samuel Gerrard of Gibbstown who was a friend of Jonathan Swift and visited London and Bath in 1740.[5] Samuel was probably a younger brother of the John Gerrard (d.1838) who was High Sheriff of Meath in 1818. By 1785, at the age of eighteen, Samuel Gerrard was established at Montreal as a merchant concerned with the fur trade from Timiskaming. In 1791, he went into partnership with his future brother-in-law, William Grant, and Étienne-Charles Campion. Gerrard acted as the firm's accountant, receiving a quarter of the profits.[6]
Legacy
Gerrard Street in Toronto is named in his honour.
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- ↑ Peter Deslauriers, “GERRARD, SAMUEL,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 5, 2024, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gerrard_samuel_8E.html.
- ↑ North Leinster: The Counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath
- ↑ Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
- ↑ Galway Landed Estates Database
- ↑ The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia
- ↑ Template:Canadabio
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- 1767 births
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- Bank of Montreal presidents
- 18th-century Canadian merchants
- Members of the Special Council of Lower Canada
- Canadian justices of the peace
- Businesspeople from Montreal
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec
- People from County Meath
- Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery