Sir Henry Pierrepont (1546 – 19 March 1615) was an English MP who resided at

Holme Pierrepont Holme Pierrepont is a hamlet and civil parish located south-east of the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It is in the Gamston ward of the Rushcliffe local authority in the East Midlands region. The population of the civil pa ...

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Family

He was the son of Sir George Pierrepont and succeeded him in 1564. His mother, Winnifred née Twaits, remarried Sir Gervase Clifton. He married Frances Cavendish, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Hardwick. The children were: * Grace PierrepontGrace Pierrepont
ThePeerage.com, accessed 27 December 2008 *

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, who was brought up in the household of

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, and later married

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Life

He was elected as

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for

in 1572, and then took up a series of local appointments, becoming a Justice of the Peace around 1573,

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in 1575–76 and 1601–02, and Recorder of Nottingham in 1603. He was knighted in April 1603.

Memorial

His memorial is in

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architect ...

References

Sources

*The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, volume XI. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierrepont, Henry 1546 births 1615 deaths 17th-century English people High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire Knights Bachelor Politicians awarded knighthoods English MPs 1572–1583 Henry