1520–1584) was an English Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Preston and Wigan during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I of England.
He was the son of James Gerard of Astley and Ince, Lancashire and Margaret, daughter of John Holcroft; and brother of Sir Gilbert Gerard of Ince.
[1] By 1552 Gerard had been appointed Receiver of the Middlesex lands of the Edward, Lord North by 1552.
[1] Gerard married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Page of Sudbury Court, Middlesex.
They had eight sons including William Gerard (c. 1551–1609) and four daughters.