Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour
Gerard Richardson (author) Lifetime Achievement in Business award 2012 Cumbria Community Heroes Lifetime Achievement award 2015 Commended by the United States Ambassador to the UK in 2010 for furthering relations between the UK and USA He still runs Richardson's of Whitehaven, a Fine Wine and Coffee Merchants in the town and is working on his first novel. Gerard Richardson (author) Gerard Richardson MBE born 4 January 1962 in Cleator Moor was the founder and CEO of the International Maritime Festivals which ran in Whitehaven from 1999 to 2013. He is also an author of two Recipe Books with celebrity chef Jean Christophe Novelli