Sir Samuel Garrard, 4th Baronet

By the death, on 13 January 1700, of his brother Sir John Garrard, the third baronet, he succeeded to the baronetcy and the family estate of Lamer in Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire.

[2] Garrard was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Amersham on the Drake interest at a by-election on 10 March 1701.

He was returned in a contest at Amersham at the 1705 English general election and voted against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705.

Garrard is said to have approved of the sermon and to have sanctioned its publication, but this he repudiated in the House of Commons when Sacheverell pleaded the encouragement of the Lord Mayor in mitigation of his offence.

During the serious riots which followed this trial, Garrard exerted himself with much energy to restore order, and issued a proclamation, dated 30 March, prohibiting assemblies in the streets, the lighting of bonfires, and the sale of seditious books and pamphlets.

In October 1710 Garrard was chosen colonel of one of the regiments of the trained bands, and in the same year he became master of the Grocers' Company, of which he was a liveryman.

His property included estates in Exhall and Bedworth, Warwickshire; in Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire; and in the city of London; besides stock and annuities in the South Sea Company.