About: Andrew Gerard

Andrew Gerard (died 1767) was a Scottish Episcopal minister who served as the Bishop of Aberdeen from 1746 to 1767. The son of Andrew Gerard, a mariner of Abedeen, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen from 1699 to 1701. He was ordained a deacon in Edinburgh in the 1710s and a priest in Aberdeen in 1725. He served as a chaplain at Balgowan until 1720 and then chaplain to Lord Nairne from 1720 to 1728. His next appointment was as a curate at St John's, Aberdeen (1728–1733), where he assisted the Reverend George Garden. Gerard eventually became the Incumbent of St John's, Aberdeen (1733–1767); a position which he kept until his death. He married sometime before December 1731 to Mrs Burnett, widow of Robert Burnett (son of the Reverend John Burnett, Incumbent of Monymusk).