Father of Car­o­line No­el and el­der bro­ther of Bap­tist No­el, Ger­ard was ed­u­cat­ed at Ed­in­burgh and Cam­bridge. Taking Ho­ly Or­ders, he was suc­cess­iv­ely Cur­ate of Rad­well, Hert­ford­shire; Vi­car of Rain­ham and Rom­sey; and Ca­non of Win­ches­ter Ca­thed­ral. His works inc­lude:

• A Se­lect­ion of Psalms and Hymns from the New Ver­sion of the Church of Eng­land and Others; Cor­rect­ed and Re­vised for Pub­lic Wor­ship (Lon­don: J. Hatch­ard, 1810; third edi­tion 1820)
• Arvendel, or Sketch­es in It­a­ly and Switz­er­land, 1813
• Fifty Ser­mons for the Use of Fam­i­lies, 1830
• Sermons Preached in Rom­sey, 1853

• Julian, p. 809

1. If Hu­man Kind­ness Meets Re­turn
2. Stamped as the Pur­pose of the Skies
3. When Mus­ing Sor­row Weeps the Past