Earl Manvers

Thoresby Hall, the seat of the Earls Manvers.

Earl Manvers was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1806 for Charles Pierrepont, 1st Viscount Newark. He had already been created Baron Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont in the County of Nottingham, and Viscount Newark, of Newark-on-Trent in the County of Nottingham, in 1796.^[1] Both these titles were in the Peerage of Great Britain. Born Charles Medows, he was the second son of Philip Medows, Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park, by Lady Frances Pierrepont, daughter of William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston (1692-1713), eldest son and heir apparent of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. In 1788 Charles Medows succeeded to the Pierrepont estates on the death of the second Duke's wife, and assumed the same year by Royal sign manual the surname of Pierrepont in lieu of Medows. Manvers's eldest son Evelyn Pierrepont predeceased him and he was succeeded by his second son Charles, the second Earl. He was a naval commander and Member of Parliament. He was succeeded by his second and only surviving son, Sydney, the third Earl. He represented Nottinghamshire South in Parliament. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles, the fourth Earl. He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Newark. On his death the titles passed to his only son Evelyn, the fifth Earl. He suffered a mental breakdown at the age of 17 and never married. He was succeeded by his cousin Gervas Pierrepont, the sixth Earl. He was the only son of the Hon. Evelyn Henry Pierrepont (1856-1926), second son of the third Earl. The fifth Earl's only son died as a child and the title became extinct on Lord Manvers's death in 1955.

Other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Medows (died 1813), brother of the first Earl, was a Captain in the Royal Navy. Sir William Medows, brother of the first Earl, was a General in the British Army. The Honourable Henry Pierrepont, third son of the first Earl, was a diplomat.

The ancestral seat of the Earls Manvers was Thoresby Hall, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire. The hall itself, built in the 1860s by the third Earl to the designs of Anthony Salvin. It is now used as a hotel and conference venue. It remained the country residence of the last Countess Manvers until the 1970s, but was subsequently sold by the family after the death of the Countess Manvers in 1984, aged 95. The Thoresby agricultural and forestry estate remains in private hands.

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.

Earls Manvers (1806)

• Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers (1737–1816)
  • Evelyn Henry Frederick Pierrepont (1775–1801)
• Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers (1778–1860)
  • Charles Evelyn Pierrepont, Viscount Newark (1805–1850)
• Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (1825–1900)
• Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers (1854–1926)
• Evelyn Robert Pierrepont, 5th Earl Manvers (25 July 1888–6 April 1940). Styled Viscount Newark from 1900 to 1926, he was the eldest son of Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers. Educated at Eton, he suffered a mental breakdown 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 Gervas succeeded to the title on his death.
• Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers (1881–1955)
  • Evelyn Louis Butterfield Pierrepont (1924-1928)

References

1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13914. p. 704. 23 July 1796. Retrieved 2008-11-17.

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• "5th Earl of Manvers Biography". Retrieved 2009-11-02. 

External links

• Papers of the Earls Manvers and their predecessors, held at Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham