Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield
Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield (15 October 1663 – 26 December 1702) was a British peer, styled Hon. Fitton Gerard until 1701.[1]
Biography
He was the younger son of
earldom in 1701. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant
of Lancashire that year, but died in the following year, the earldom becoming extinct.
After his death, there was a long legal dispute between the
fought a famous duel in Hyde Park, Westminster, described in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond and in Bernard Burke's Anecdotes of the Aristocracy.[2]
References
- ^ James William Edmund Doyle, The Official Baronage of England, vol. 2 (London: Longmans, Green, 1886), p. 433
- ^ Sir Bernard Burke, Anecdotes of the Aristocracy (Walford, 1878), pp. 375–405
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