Brigadier Gerard and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in "How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"). In "How
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