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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 parish ...
,
Nottinghamshire
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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
*Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
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* Elizabeth Pierrepont, who was brought up in the household of Mary, Queen of Scots
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The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scot ...
, and later married Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie
Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie (1566 – 12 June 1639) was a Scottish peer.
Biography
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Life
He was elected as Member of Parliament
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for Nottinghamshire
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in 1572, and then took up a series of local appointments, becoming a Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
around 1573, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
This is a list of the High Sheriffs of the English county of Nottinghamshire.
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in 1575–76 and 1601–02, and Recorder of Nottingham
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Judge Gregory Dickinson KC was appointed Recorder of Nottingham in 2016.
List of Recorders o ...
in 1603. He was knighted in April 1603.
Memorial
His memorial is in St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont.
References
Sources
*The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, volume XI.
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1546 births
1615 deaths
17th-century English people
High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire
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Politicians awarded knighthoods
English MPs 1572–1583
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