Sir Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester

Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS (March 1606 – 8 December 1680) was an English peer, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Styled Viscount Newark from 1628, he was Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1628 until 1629, and was summoned to the House of Lords 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 he was at Oxford in attendance upon the King, whom he represented at the negotiations at Uxbridge. In 1645 he was made a Privy Counsellor and created Marquess of Dorchester; but in 1647 he compounded for his estates by paying a large fine to the parliamentarians. Afterwards, Lord Dorchester, who was always fond of books, spent his time mainly in London engaged in the study of medicine and law, 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 and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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.
• 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 and Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby. 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).

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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• 'Henry Pierrepont, 1st and last Marquess of Dorchester
• 'M, #18397, b. March 1606/7, d. 8 December 1680
• Last Edited=28 Mar 2004
• ' Henry Pierrepont, 1st and last Marquess of Dorchester was born in March 1606/7.1 He married Hon. Cicelia Bayning, daughter of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning of Sudbury and Anne Glemham, before 1630.1 He died on 8 December 1680 at age 73.1
• ' He gained the title of 2nd Earl Kingston-upon-Hull.1 He gained the title of Marquess of Dorchester.
• 'Child of Henry Pierrepont, 1st and last Marquess of Dorchester
  • 1.Lady Anne Pierrepont
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 38. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1840.htm#i18397
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• 'Biography of Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, and Marquess of Dorchester (1607-1680)
• 'The eldest son and heir of Sir Robert Pierrepont, Henry was baptised at Mansfield and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1624. Following his father's peerage in 1628, Henry was styled Viscount Newark.
• He was elected as M.P. for Nottingham, and sat in the House of Commons from 1628-9. In January 1641 he was called to the House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont and was an active member on behalf of the King.
• He was a leading member of the Nottinghamshire Commission of Array in 1642, raising money and troops for the Royalist cause, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in the same year. In 1643 he sat as a member of the King's Council of War and of the royalist Oxford Parliament. Appointed as a Privy Councillor in March 1644/5, on 25 March 1645 King Charles created him Marquess of Dorchester.
• Following the King's defeat, in 1647 the Marquess compounded for his estates and was fined £7,467 for delinquency. He turned his attention to law and medicine. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1651 and took the bar the following year. His medical studies led to his becoming an honourable Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1658. His extensive and varied library was later bequeathed to the Royal College of Physicians. In 1663 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
• 'On the Restoration in 1660, he once again became a Privy Councillor, and an active member of the House of Lords. He died in London in December 1680, upon which the Marquessate of Dorchester became extinct. He was succeeded as Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull by his great-nephew Robert Pierrepont. He was buried at Holme Pierrepont.
• Family
• 'He married 1stly Cecilia Bayning, daughter of the 1st Viscount Bayning (1613-1639), and 2ndly, in 1652, Catherine Stanley, daughter of the 7th Earl of Derby.
• From his first marriage, he had:
  • •Robert (b 1632, died an infant)
  • •Henry (d 1649), styled Lord Pierrepont or Viscount Newark
  • •Anne (b 1631), m John Manners, Lord Ros, later 9th Earl and 1st Duke of Rutland in 1658 (dissolved by Act of Parliament 1668)
  • •Grace (c.1635-1703), Lady in Waiting to Queen Anne
• Archive Collections
• •Title deeds and estate papers relating to the Marquess's ownership of his estates are held at The British Library (Egerton Charters 2301-8836; Egerton MSS 3516-3660)
• •Medical and mathematical collections of the Marquess are held at The British Library (Sloane MSS 1417-22, 2118-19, 2346, 3575-76)
• Published Sources
• •Seddon, P.R., ‘Pierrepont, Henry, marquess of Dorchester (1607–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [available online to subscribers, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22229]
• •Payne, L. M. Payne and Newman, C.E., ‘The history of the college library: the Dorchester Library’, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 4 (1970), 234–46
• •Lister, A., 'Catalogus Bibliothecae Kingstonianae', Book Collector, 32 (1985), 63-77
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collec...
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• ..... The advowson then reverted to the heirs of Paul first Viscount Bayning, and was divided among the descendants of his four daughters, 'Cecily', Anne; Mary and Elizabeth. (fn. 171) 'Cecily married Henry Pierrepont Marquess of Dorchester, (fn. 172) and their daughter' Anne married in 1658 John Manners, styled Lord Roos, from whom she was divorced in 1666, (fn. 173) and married secondly John Tildesley. In 1674 she was holding an eighth part of the advowson. (fn. 174) William Pierrepont, evidently her heir, suffered a recovery of it in 1703. (fn. 175) The second daughter Anne married Henry Murray, (fn. 176) whilst the third daughter Mary seems to be represented in1661 by Arthur Gorges and Mary his wife. .....
• From: 'Parishes: Hinxworth', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 232-240. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43610 Date accessed: 01 December 2011.
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