Gregory Sherwood is a historical researcher and blog author from the state of Colorado in the United States. Since his historical research into Sir Richard Lane began in 2015, it has taken on a life of its own.  Sherwood has established a number of significant new connections and made several new discoveries regarding this important (but elusive) figure of the English Civil War of the middle 1600’s.

Beginning with the unplanned purchase of a copy of the 1657 book known as “Lane’s Reports,” the “Quest for the Lost Lord Keeper” has blossomed into a broad research effort into the life, experiences and legacy of this early professor of the law and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England to both King Charles I and II.  Sir Richard Lane was a courageous and admirable figure who wasn’t just “in the room” for some of the most important events of this pivitol moment in England’s history–he was “at the table”.  A book and possibly a dramatic historical series may lie 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. He holds 5 technical patents that include the invention of a the first major advance in computer memory management since the development of modern computers.  His multi-dimensional “logarithmic hashing” memory manager allows near-ideal (and very fast) management of very large computer memory spaces. Variations of this new memory manager now reside at the heart of nearly all modern computer operating systems.

Sherwood joined the Société Jersiaise while investigating Richard Lane’s unknown gravesite.  Through an overlooked passage in the diary of the 1600’s Jerseyman, Jean Chevalier, clues regarding the mystery of Sir Richard Lane’s fate led to the revelation 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 has also given 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 has given several talks in Uxbridge, UK about the original form of the Uxbridge Treaty House (a Class II* historic site, and home of today’s Crown and Treaty pub). Sherwood was also published in the 2018 annual publication of the Société Jersiaise.