Gerrard Fowke

Gerrard Fowke
Member of the Maryland Assembly for Charles County
In office
1666
Member of the House of Burgesses for Westmoreland County
In office
1663-1665
Preceded byThomas Fowke
Succeeded byJohn Washington
Personal details
Born1626
Brewood, Staffordshire, England
DiedOctober 15, 1669
Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland
SpouseAnn Thorogood Chandler
ChildrenRoger, Adam and Gerrard Fowke Jr., Mary Fowke Mason, Elizabeth Fowke Dent
RelativesThomas Fowke (brother)

Gerrard Foulke or Fowke (1626 – October 15, 1669) was an English merchant who became a planter, military officer and politician in the Colony of Virginia, then the Maryland Colony. He succeeded his brother and business partner Thomas Fowke and represented Westmoreland County in the House of Burgesses, before marrying a widow, moving to Port Tobacco and representing Charles County in the Maryland Assembly.[1][2]

  1. ^ McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown People to 1800. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1.
  2. ^ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography vol.1. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 238–239.