ROBERT

See also:

• PIERREPONT, WILLIAM (c. 1607-1678)

PIERREPONT (1584-1643)  , second son of Sir Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, was member of parliament for Nottingham in 16or, and was created Baron Pierrepont and Viscount Newark in 1627, being made earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in the following year . He remained neutral on the outbreak of the Civil War; but afterwards he joined the king, and was appointed lieutenant-general of the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk . Whilst defending Gainsborough he was taken prisoner, and was accidentally killed on the 25th of July 1643 while being conveyed to Hull . The earl had five sons, one of whom was Francis Pierrepont (d . 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (q.v.), a leading member of the parliamentary party . His son HENRY PIERREPONT (16o6-1680), 2nd earl of Kingston and 1st marquess of Dorchester, was member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, and was called to the House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont in 1641 . During the earlier part of the 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 councillor and created marquess of Dorchester; but in 1647 he compounded for his estates by paying a large fine to the parliamentarians . Afterwards the marquess, 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 . Dorchester had two daughters, but no sons, and when he died in London on the 8th of December 168o the title of marquess of Dorchester became extinct . He was succeeded as 3rd earl of Kingston by Robert (d .

1682), a son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, and as 4th earl by Robert's

brother William (d . 1690) .