# Samuel Gerrard

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| name             = Samuel Gerrard
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| office           = 2nd President of the [Bank of Montreal](/source/Bank_of_Montreal)
| predecessor      = [John Gray](/source/John_Gray_(banker))
| successor        = [Horatio Gates](/source/Horatio_Gates_(businessman))
| term_start       = 1820
| term_end         = 1826
| office2          = Member of the [Special Council of Lower Canada](/source/Special_Council_of_Lower_Canada)
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| term_start2      = 1838
| term_end2        = 1841
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| birth_date       = {{birth-date|1767}}
| birth_place      = [Gibbstown](/source/Baile_Ghib) House, [County Meath](/source/County_Meath)
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1857|03|24|1767}}
| death_place      = [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Canada East](/source/Canada_East)
| spouse           = Ann Grant m. 1782, d. 1854
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| children         = Three sons including Samuel Henry (d. 1858), Richard, two daughters including Mary
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'''Samuel Gerrard''' (1767  &ndash;  24 March 1857 ) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) [fur trader](/source/fur_trader), businessman, militia officer, justice of the peace, politician, and [seigneur](/source/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France). He was the second president of the [Bank of Montreal](/source/Bank_of_Montreal), from 1838 to 1841. He was a member of the [Special Council of Lower Canada](/source/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.
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Gerrard was born in [Ireland](/source/Ireland) at [Gibbstown](/source/Baile_Ghib) House, [County Meath](/source/County_Meath). The Gerrards were a prosperous [Anglo-Irish](/source/Anglo-Irish) family who had held Gibbstown, an estate of some 1,270 [acre](/source/acre)s, 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](/source/Jonathan_Swift) and visited [London](/source/London) and [Bath](/source/Bath%2C_Somerset) 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](/source/High_Sheriff_of_Meath) in 1818. 

By 1785, at the age of eighteen, Samuel Gerrard was established at [Montreal](/source/Montreal) as a merchant concerned with the [fur trade](/source/North_American_fur_trade) from [Timiskaming](/source/Timiskaming_District). In 1791, he went into partnership with his future brother-in-law, [William Grant](/source/William_Grant_(fur_trader)), 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](/source/Gerrard_Street_(Toronto)) in Toronto is named in his honour.

==External links==
* {{QuebecMLCbio|gerrard-samuel-181}}
* {{Canadabio|ID=3931}}

==References==
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| title  = President of the [Bank of Montreal](/source/Bank_of_Montreal)
| years  = 1820-1826
| after  = [Horatio Gates](/source/Horatio_Gates_(businessman))
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