Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC

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, FRS (March 1606 – 8 December 1680) was an English

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 peer

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, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull was an English nobleman-Family:He was the second son of Sir Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, and Frances Cavendish, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Hardwick...

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Career

Styled Viscount Newark from 1628, he was Member of Parliament

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 for Nottingham

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 from 1628 until 1629, and was summoned to the House of Lords

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 in his father's Barony of Pierrepont in 1641. He succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1643.

During the earlier part of the English Civil War

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 he was at Oxford

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 in attendance upon the King, whom he represented at the negotiations at Uxbridge

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. In 1645 he was made a Privy Counsellor

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 and created Marquess of Dorchester; but in 1647 he compounded for his estates by paying a large fine to the parliamentarians

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. Afterwards, Lord Dorchester, who was always fond of books, spent his time mainly in London

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 engaged in the study of medicine

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 and law

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, his devotion to the former science bringing upon him a certain amount of ridicule and abuse.

After the Restoration he was restored to the Privy Council, and was made Recorder of Nottingham

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 and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Marriages and children

He married first Cecilia Bayning, a daughter of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning. They had four children:

• Lady Anne Pierrepont (born 9 March 1630). Married John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland
  John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland
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• Grace Pierrepont.
• Henry Pierrepont (d. 1649).
• Robert Pierrepont.

He was secondly married to Lady Catherine Stanley, a daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby

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 and Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby

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. This marriage was childless.

Dorchester survived his sons and when he died in London on 8 December 1680 the Marquessate of Dorchester became extinct. He was succeeded as 3rd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull by Robert (d. 1682), a son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, and as 4th Earl by Robert's brother William (d. 1690).