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WILLIAM PIERREPONT (c. 1607-1678)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 592 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:PIERREPONT (c. 1607-1678)  , See also:English politician, was the second son of See also:Robert See also:Pierrepont, 1st See also:earl of See also:Kingston . Returned to the See also:Long See also:Parliament in 164o as member for See also:Great See also:Wenlock, he threw his See also:influence on the See also:side of See also:peace and took See also:part for the parliament in the negotiations with See also:Charles I. at See also:Oxford in 1643 . Pierrepont was a member of the See also:committee of both kingdoms, and represented the See also:parliamentary party during the deliberations at See also:Uxbridge in 1645; but from that See also:time, according to See also:Clarendon, he forsook his moderate attitude, and " contracted more bitterness and sourness than formerly." This statement, however, is perhaps somewhat exaggerated, as Pierrepont favoured the resumption of negotiations with the See also:king in 1647, and in the following See also:year his efforts on behalf of peace at See also:Newport, where again he represented the parliamentarians, brought upon him some slight censure from See also:Cromwell . For his services at Newport he was thanked by parliament; but he retired from active See also:political See also:life soon afterwards, as he disliked the " purging " of the See also:House of See also:Commons by See also:Colonel See also:Pride and the proceedings against the king . In spite of his See also:Company . Chouteau built (in 183o-1831) the " Yellowstone," which went up the See also:river to the See also:present site of See also:Pierre in 1831, and was the first steamboat to navigate the upper See also:waters of the See also:Missouri . Chouteau lived for some years in New See also:York See also:City, and while living in St See also:Louis was a member of the See also:convention (1820) which drafted the first constitution of Missouri . moderate views Pierrepont enjoyed the See also:personal friendship of Cromwell; but, although elected, he would not sit in the parliament of 1656, nor would he take the See also:place offered to him in the See also:Protector's House of Lords . When See also:Richard Cromwell succeeded his See also:father, Pierrepont was an unobtrusive but powerful influence in directing the policy of the See also:government, and after a See also:short See also:period of retirement on Richard's fall he was chosen, See also:early in 166o, a member of the See also:council of See also:state . He represented See also:Nottinghamshire in the Convention Parliament of 166o, and probably was instrumental in saving the lives of some of the parliamentary leaders . At the See also:general See also:election of 1661 he was defeated, and, spending the See also:remainder of his life in retirement, he died in 1678 . Pierrepont married See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Harris, See also:Bart., of Tong See also:Castle, See also:Shropshire, by whom he had five sons and five daughters .

His eldest son, Robert (d . 1666), was the father of Robert, 3rd earl, See also:

William, 4th earl, and See also:Evelyn, 1st See also:duke of Kingston; and his third son, Gervase (1649–1715), was created in 1714 See also:baron Pierrepont of Hanslope, a See also:title which became See also:extinct on his See also:death .

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