Gregory Hascard
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Gregory Hascard DD (died 15 November 1708) was a Canon of Windsor from 1671 to 1684[1] and then Dean of Windsor from 1684 until 1708, but he was also a noted pluralist. He wrote three books on religious subjects.
Born in Grantham, the son of Thomas Hascard and Alice Hand, Hascard married Rachel Fane on 4 February 1667, at Gray's Inn Chapel, Middlesex (now London WC1).
Hascard was a member of the Order of Little Bedlam, a gentlemen's drinking club, founded in 1684. Portraits held at Burghley House by John Riley and Antonio Verrio painted him as god Bacchus are as a result of being a member.[2]
In 1689 he bought the Baylis estate in the Parish of Stoke Poges and in 1696 had built Baylis House.[3]
He was buried in St Giles's Church, Stoke Poges, where a monument was erected in his memory.[4]
