[1] He was the youngest son of Sir John Everard, 3rd Baronet, whose family effectively owned the town of Fethard in County Tipperary.
[1] He sat in the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny City from 1711 to 1713,[5] and for Fethard, County Tipperary from 1713 to 1715.
[5] Although he took the Oath of Supremacy to qualify for his seat in Parliament, his loyalty to the House of Hanover was suspect, and with good reason: nicknamed "the little knight", he became a familiar figure in Jacobite cabals.
His status as an absentee landlord caused him considerable financial difficulties, and he eventually sold much of his estate to a Mr. Barton, of the famous Bordeaux wine merchant family.
[1][2] He died in France on 13 April 1742, without heirs: he left his property to his widow Mary for her lifetime, and after her death to James Long, a distant cousin, who belonged to another branch of the Everard family.