Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers, VD (2 August 1854 – 17 July 1926), known as Viscount Newark from 1860 to 1900, was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician.

Career

Born in

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, he was the eldest son of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers. He was educated at Eton, and was styled by the

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Viscount Newark Viscount Newark is a title that has been created twice in British history, each time with the subsidiary title of Baron Pierrepont. The first creation was on 29 June 1627 in the Peerage of England for Sir Robert Pierrepont. This creation was ...

from 1860 until succeeded to his father's peerage in January 1900. Newark was a sub-lieutenant in the

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from 1872 until retiring in 1880, and subsequently held a variety of positions in the

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and

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: captain in the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry; major in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion (later 8th Bn),

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) and honorary colonel from 1904; colonel commanding the

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1896–1908.''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage''.''The Times'', 19 July 1926. In November 1901 he received the

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(VD) for his contribution to the North Midlands Infantry Volunteers. He was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark division of

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. He was re-elected unopposed in

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and

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, and stood down at the 1895 general election. However, his Conservative successor Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton resigned in 1898, and Viscount Newark was returned unopposed at the resulting by-election. He held the seat until his succession to the peerage in 1900. The 4th Earl was a keen sportsman and was Master of the Rufford Hunt from 1900.

Family and children

In 1880 he married Helen Shaw-Stewart, daughter of

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet Colonel Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 November 1826 – 10 December 1903) was a British baronet and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1855 to 1865. He was the son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart ...

, and had four children: * Lady Cicely Mary Pierrepont (1886–1936), married Francis Henry Hardy of Edith Weston Hall, Rutland, in 1915 * Evelyn Robert Pierrepont, 5th Earl Manvers (1888–1940) * Lady Alice Helen Pierrepont (30 August 1889 – 8 March 1969), buried at

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* Lady Sibell Pierrepont (1892–1968), married Hubert Davys Argles in 1923 He died suddenly on 17 July 1926 at his house in Tilney Street, London, at the age of 71.

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