About

Gregory Sherwood is a historical researcher and blog author from the state of Colorado in the United States.  Since his research began in 2015, it has taken on a life of its own as Sherwood pieced together a significant number of connections and made new discoveries regarding this elusive Lord Keeper of the middle 1600’s.

A chance encounter with a copy of the 1657 book known as “Lane’s Reports,” has become a broad research project into the life and experiences of this important but little known figure of the English Civil War of the middle 1600’s. Sir Richard Lane, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and prominent professor of Law at Middle Temple, was a courageous and admirable man who wasn’t just “in the room” for some of the most important events of his time–he was “at the table”. A book (and perhaps a historical drama) likely lies at the end of this enquiry.

A technologist and analyst by trade (and an amateur musician and outdoors adventurist at leisure) Sherwood has bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and currently holds five patents.

Sherwood joined the Société Jersiaise while investigating an overlooked passage in the Diary of the 1600’s Jerseyman Jean Chevalier. This passage provided clues regarding the mystery of Sir Richard Lane’s fate in exile during the English Civil War, leading a strong case that his potentially intact but unmarked grave lies under the floor of the thousand year old Town Church of St. Helier, Jersey.

Sherwood has since made a handful of research trips to England and Jersey as part of the project, and has given talks on the “Quest for the Lost Lord Keeper” in Jersey, England and the United States.  Sherwood also gave a presentation regarding his analysis of the 1844 painting, “The Trial of Strafford” to the office of the Curator of the Parliamentary Art Collection at Westminster, London. In 2023-2025, Sherwood gave talks in Uxbridge, UK about the origins of the Uxbridge Treaty House (a Class II* historic site, and home of the Crown and Treaty pub). Sherwood was also published in the 2018 annual publication of the Société Jersiaise.