Sir George Farmer's, 9 July, 1603, according to Foster's 'Alumni Oxon.' (14 July, according to Mr. W. D. Pink), being described as of co. Bucks (Metcalfe's 'Book of Knights'). His father was one of the burgesses of the town of Southampton, enfranchised 8 Jan., 41 Elizabeth (1599); Sir Gerrard and his elder brother Sir Miles were enfranchised 14 Sept., 5 James I. (1607). See Hist. MSS. Commission, 'MSS. of the Town of Southampton.' He was a party to an indenture of settlement, dated 2 May, 1642, of the manor of Standish, by Sir Ralph Dutton, of Painswick, co. Gloucester, to pay Sir Ralph's debts and for the benefit of Sir Ralph's (now only) daughter Elizabeth Button; and his name occurs in the Royalist Composition Papers, in addition to the instances cited by Mr. Pink, in connexion with the sequestrated estate of Sir Ralph Dutton.
He was returned to Parliament for New Woodstock Borough, 20 April, 1625, and Woodstock Borough, 14 Jan., 1625 6. He was at Woodstock with his wife and family in October, 1649, when the Parliamentary Commissioners were disturbed by apparitions see 'The Just Devil of Woodstock,' printed at the end of Sir Walter Scott's novel of 'Woodstock.' I have been unable to ascertain the date of his death; but his will, dated 26 Nov., 1657, was proved 26 Feb., 1657/8, by the executors, his nephew Sir William Fleetwood (son of Sir Miles) and Dame Anne, his widow (P.C.C. Wotton, 663).
By his first wife he may have had female issue; his third wife, Isabel Nevill, though thrice married, had no children. By his second wife, Mary Dutton, he appears to have had one son, Dutton Fleetwood, who predeceased him. Dutton matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 11 Oct., 1639, aged sixteen, and according to Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses' was dead in 1657; 1637 is evidently a misprint. He was a colonel in the Royalist army, his regiment being mentioned in 'Loyal and Indigent Officers before 1663,' and Governor of Boston Garrison. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Salisbury, of Llewenny, co. Denbigh, Bart., by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Vaughan, Earl of Carbery. The marriage took place about December, 17 Charles I. (1641), and only one child was born of it, a son Gerrard Dutton; the widow married Arthur Stanhope, fourth son of the first Earl of Chesterfield. Administration was granted to her son, Sir Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood, 3 May, 1695, her second husband having renounced; she is described as of Mansfield Woodhouse, co. Nottingham, but in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, co. Middlesex (P.C.C. Irby).
Sir Gerrard Fleetwood's will (dated 26 Nov., 1657; proved 26 Feb., 1657/8, above mentioned) alludes to his daughters Elizabeth Kekewich (whose first husband was Thomas, son of Sir Francis Dowce, of ……, Somerset) and Gifford, and two grandchildren, Thomas Douse (sic) and Richard Gifford. These daughters may have been by his first or second marriage. Sir Gerrard's widow Anne is described in her will as of Drayton, in the parish of Barton Stacey, co. Southampton; will dated 6 Jan., 1690, proved 4 Aug., 1691 (P.C.C. Vere, 37). She had a daughter Anne, wife of John Ryves, of Dray ton, but this daughter is not mentioned in Sir Gerrard's will; she also mentions her niece Frances Stirridge.
Sir Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood, only child of Col. Dutton Fleetwood, was one of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II. His first wife was Anne, daughter of John Pargiter, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, who in his will of 8 Feb., proved 24 Feb., 1687 (P.C.C. Exton, 21), makes bequests to his grandchildren John and Mary Fleetwood (Waters's 'Genealogical Gleanings in England'). His second wife was Mary (married at St. James's, Duke's Place, Aldgate, 3 March, 1687/8), daughter of Holt, of co. Warwick, by whom he had two sons and a daughter, who all died in infancy, and were buried with their parents in Putney Church (M.I. given in Manning and Bray's 'Surrey,' iii. 293). He died at his lodgings in Scotland Yard, 30 Sept., 1699, aged fifty-five. Will, dated 11 Aug., 1699, proved 23 Jan., 1699/1700 (P.C C. Noel 6), describes him as of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. His widow died 27 Aug., 1720, aged about sixty; her will, undated, was proved 1 Sept., 1720 (P.C.C. Shaller, 194), by Mary Hamlet; she was residing at the time of her decease in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster.
By his first wife, Anne, daughter of John Pargiter, Sir Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood had, as already stated, two children, John and Mary. John became a merchant in Naples about October, 1708, and was British Consul in that city. He writes thence on 30 April, 1715, to Lord Townshend to beg his acceptance of a cask of Lachrimæ, and if the vintage had been better, he would have also sent some of Horace's Falernian (Hist. MSS. Commission, 'Marquess Townshend MSS.'). He married Anne, widow of Bird, who
