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ROBERT PIERREPONT (1584-1643)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:PIERREPONT (1584-1643) , second son of See also:Sir See also:Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont, See also:Nottinghamshire, was member of See also:parliament for See also:Nottingham in 16or, and was created See also:Baron Pierrepont and See also:Viscount See also:Newark in 1627, being made See also:earl of See also:Kingston-upon-See also:Hull in the following See also:year. He remained neutral on the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War; but afterwards he joined the See also:king, and was appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the counties of See also:Lincoln, See also:Rutland, See also:Huntingdon, See also:Cambridge and See also:Norfolk. Whilst defending See also:Gainsborough he was taken prisoner, and was accidentally killed on the 25th of See also:July 1643 while being conveyed to Hull. The earl had five sons, one of whom was See also:Francis Pierrepont (d. 1659), a See also:colonel in the See also:parliamentary See also:army and afterwards a member of the See also:Long Parliament; and another was See also:William Pierrepont (q.v.), a leading member of the parliamentary party. His son HENRY PIERREPONT (16o6-1680), 2nd earl of Kingston and 1st See also:marquess of See also:Dorchester, was member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, and was called to the See also:House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont in 1641. During the earlier See also:part of the Civil War he was at See also:Oxford in attendance upon the king, whom he represented at the negotiations at See also: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 See also:fine to the parliamentarians. Afterwards the marquess, who was always fond of books, spent his See also:time mainly in See also:London engaged in the study of See also:medicine and See also:law, his devotion to the former See also:science bringing upon him a certain amount of ridicule and abuse. After the Restoration he was restored to the privy See also:council, and was made See also:recorder of Nottingham and a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. Dorchester had two daughters, but no sons, and when he died in London on the 8th of See also:December 168o the See also:title of marquess of Dorchester became See also: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 See also:

brother William (d. 1690).

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