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Authorised form of namePierrepont; Henry (1607 - 1680); 1st Marquess of Dorchester; nobleman
Dates1607 - 1680
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEurope
Date of birthMarch 1607
Place of deathCharterhouse Yard, London, England, Europe
Date of death8 December 1680
DatesAndPlacesBaptism:
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, Europe (c. 1607)
Burial:
Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England, Europe
Research fieldMedicine
ActivityEducation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1624); Gray's Inn (admitted 1651)
Career:
MP for Nottinghamshire (1628-1629); Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (1641); Honorary MA (Oxford 1642); Leading member of the Nottinghamshire Commission of Array (1642); Member of the King's Council of War at Oxford (1642-43); Commissioner for the King at the Treaty of Uxbridge (1645); Privy Councillor (1645, 1660-1679); compounded for his estate (1647); Bencher of Gray's Inn (1658); Privy Councillor (1660-1673); Commissioner of Claims at the Coronation (1661); Joint Commissioner for the Office of Earl Marshal (1662); Recorder of Nottingham (1666); bequeathed his library, valued at £4000, to the Royal College of Physicians
Honours:
Marquess 1645
Memberships:
Hon FRCP (1658)
Membership categoryOriginal Fellow
Date of election20/05/1663
Age at election56
RelationshipsParents: Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and Gertrude Talbot; succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
Siblings: William Pierrepont, Francis Pierrepont
Married: 1) Cecilia Bayning 2) Katharine Stanley
Children: Anne Manners, Lady Roos; Grace Pierrepont; Henry Pierrepont; Robert Pierrepont
OtherInfoPierrepont was a royalist and was an active member of multiple committees as an MP. He inherited the title from his father after his death in 1643 and inherited family estates in Nottinghamshire, although his rental income decreased under sequestration. Approximately a third of publications focused on law and medicine and his study of physic contributed to his being elected the first Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1658. Amongst contemporary peers, Pierrepont was allegedly notorious for his temper and fierce loyalty to his family, which resulted in his involvement in multiple duels.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Foster; ODNB
Notes:
The election date is Pierrepont's election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows.
DNB gives birth date of 1606 (may be Old Style) and death date of 8 December 1680. BR gives death date of 1 December 1680.
Styled Viscount Newark.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/24951772
CodeNA4547
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