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 ...

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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
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* Elizabeth Pierrepont, who was brought up in the household of

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, and later married

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*Mary Pierrepont

Life

He was elected as Member of Parliament for

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

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 English MPs 1572–1583

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