Baron Sherard

Many descendants of the Sherard noble family are still living today, with the youngest being born in August of 2007.

His eldest son, Bennet Sherard, who would succeed him as the 2nd Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire and served as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland, while a younger son, Philip Sherard, sat as Member of Parliament for Rutland.

Although marrying Mary Eliza Temple (1818-) in 1843 he died without legitimate issue and the Earldom and Harborough barony went extinct.

[1] The right to the Sherard barony is thought to have passed to a distant cousin, descended from the third son of the 1st Baron, though the heirs of that line never attempted to sit and thus the priority of their claim was never recorded or tested before the House of Lords prior to being rendered moot by the extinction of the male line in 1931.

The succession then fell to a second cousin, Robert Castel Sherard, a descendant of the 9th Baron's grandfather, and when the latter died childless in 1931, the title became dormant .