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which had burned down. It remained the home of the last Countess Manvers until her death aged 95 in 1984 and was subsequently sold by the family and is now a hotel and conference venue. The Thoresby wider agricultural and forestry estate remains with the descendants of the Pierreponts and they have
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A comprehensive school named after him Manvers Pierrepont Comprehensive, Carlton Road, Nottingham. The school site still exists but rationalisation transformed it to a College of Further Education.
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Evelyn Henry Pierrepont (1856–1926), second son of the third Earl. The sixth Earl's only son died as a child and the Earldom and subsidiary titles became extinct on the Earl's death in 1955.
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at the age of 17 and was incapacitated for the remainder of his life. His estates were administered by a trust. He never married, and his cousin
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University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Biography of Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers (1881-1955)
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Papers of the Earls Manvers and their predecessors, held at Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham
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in Parliament. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles, the fourth Earl. He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for
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Other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Medows (died 1813), brother of the first Earl, was a
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predeceased him and he was succeeded by his second son Charles, the second Earl. He was a naval commander and
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The fifth Earl was succeeded by his cousin Gervas Pierrepont, the sixth Earl. He was the only son of the
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In 1788 Charles Medows had succeeded to the Pierrepont estates on the death of the second Duke's
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The Genealogy of the existing British Peerage with Sketches ... - Earls of Manvers
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Argent semée of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant sable
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Extinct earldom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers
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Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers
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Thoresby Hall
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Charles Medows Pierrepont, 1st Viscount Newark
Peerage of Great Britain
Philip Meadows
Richmond Park
heir apparent
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
Holme Pierrepont
wife
Evelyn Pierrepont
Member of Parliament
Nottinghamshire South
Newark
Hon
captain
Royal Navy
Sir William Medows
General
British Army
Henry Pierrepont
Thoresby Hall
Ollerton
Talman

blazoned
Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers
Evelyn Henry Frederick Pierrepont
Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers

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