Sherard of Glatton, Baron Sherard in Ireland 1627.
The pedigree of this family does not appear to be proved beyond William Sherard, who died in 1304. His ancestors, however, are said to have been of Thornton, in Cheshire, in the thirteenth century. In 1402 the family were established at Stapleford in Leicestershire by marriage with the heiress of Hawberk.
On the decease of Robert Sherard, sixth Earl of Harborough, in 1859, the representation of the family devolved upon the present lord, descended from George, third son of the first Baron.
See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. i. 343; and Brydges's Collins, iv. 180,
An extinct younger branch was of Lopthorne, in the county of Leicester.
Arms.—Argent, a chevron gules between three torteauxes.
Present Representative, Philip Castell Sherard, 9th Baron Sherard.
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