{{Infobox Officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Samuel Gerrard | honorific_suffix = | image = Samuel Gerrard.png | image_size = | office = 2nd President of the Bank of Montreal | predecessor = John Gray | successor = Horatio Gates | term_start = 1820 | term_end = 1826 | office2 = Member of the Special Council of Lower Canada | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | term_start2 = 1838 | term_end2 = 1841 | office3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | birth_date = {{birth-date|1767}} | birth_place = Gibbstown House, County Meath | death_date = {{death date and age|1857|03|24|1767}} | death_place = Montreal, Canada East | spouse = Ann Grant m. 1782, d. 1854 | party = | relations = | children = Three sons including Samuel Henry (d. 1858), Richard, two daughters including Mary | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Samuel Gerrard''' (1767 – 24 March 1857 ) was a Canadian fur trader, businessman, militia officer, justice of the peace, politician, and seigneur. He was the second president of the Bank of Montreal, from 1838 to 1841. He was a member of the Special Council of Lower Canada. In 1841, he acquired the seigneuries of Lanaudière and Carufel.<ref>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. </ref>
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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ1j2FhGpAEC&pg=PA210 North Leinster: The Counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iI0jwZZ-7TEC&pg=PA483 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1225 |title=Galway Landed Estates Database |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215441/http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1225 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=udRlsDhfhoUC&pg=PA137 The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia]</ref> 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.<ref>{{Canadabio|ID=3931}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Gerrard Street in Toronto is named in his honour.
==External links== * {{QuebecMLCbio|gerrard-samuel-181}} * {{Canadabio|ID=3931}}
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