Richard Gard | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Exeter |
Term Start: | 27 March 1857 |
Term End: | 11 July 1865 |
Alongside: | Edward Courtenay (1864–1865) Edward Divett (1857–1864) |
Predecessor: | John Duckworth Edward Divett |
Successor: | John Coleridge Edward Courtenay |
Birth Date: | 1797 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Richard Sommers Gard (1797 – 16 December 1868) was a British Conservative politician.
After failing at Honiton in 1852,[1] Gard was elected Conservative MP for Exeter at the 1857 general election and held the seat until 1865 when he did not seek re-election at that year's general election.[2]