Charles Drake Garrard

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Drake Garrard (baptized 23 December 1755 – 17 July 1817), born Charles Drake was a British land-owner and Member of Parliament for Amersham between 1796 and 1805. Early life and family 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. Drake inherited the estate of his (great-grandmother's) cousin Benet Garrard, sixth Baronet, in 1767, and added the name Garrard to his surname (see Garrard Baronets). 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. Together, they had one son and five daughters: Charles Benet Drake Garrard (born 1806) was a magistrate for Hertfordshire and was Sheriff of that county in 1839. He married, in 185, Honora Henrietta Pauncefort Duncombe, the daughter of Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duncombe and his wife Lady Alicia Margaretta Hockmore Lambert, a daughter of Richard Lambart, seventh Earl of Cavan; Miss Pauncefort Duncombe was a sister to the first of the Pauncefort-Duncombe baronets. Anne Drake Garrard. Charlotte Drake Garrard. She married George Henry Cherry, of Denford House, Berkshire. Caroline Drake Garrard. She married William Dawson of St Leonard's, Berkshire. Louisa Drake Garrard, who had died unmarried by 1852. Emily Drake Garrard. Married the Rev. John Tyrwhitt-Drake, rector of Amersham.