Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers

Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (12 March 1826 16 January 1900) was a British nobleman and politician.

Born at Holme Pierrepont, he was the second surviving son of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers. Educated at Eton, Pierrepont entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1843 and received his BA in 1846. While attending there, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Sherwood Rangers) in 1844.[1]

Pierrepont was styled Viscount Newark after the death of his elder brother in 1850. In 1851, he was commissioned a captain in the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and in 1852, was elected unopposed as Conservative Member of Parliament for South Nottinghamshire. He was named a deputy lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1854. Newark continued to sit for South Nottinghamshire until 1860, when he succeeded his father as Earl Manvers. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of his Yeomanry regiment in 1868, and honorary colonel of the regiment in 1879.[1]

Family and children

He married Georgine Jane Elizabeth Fanny de Franquetot, second daughter of Gustave, Duc de Coigny in 1852. They had five children:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Doyle, James William Edmund (1885). The Official Baronage of England, v. 2. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 464–465. Retrieved 21 March 2009.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard
William Hodgson Barrow
Member of Parliament for South Nottinghamshire
1852 – 1860
With: William Hodgson Barrow
Succeeded by
William Hodgson Barrow
Lord Stanhope
Military offices
New title Honorary Colonel of the
South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry

1879–1900
Succeeded by
The Lord Belper
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Pierrepont
Earl Manvers
1860–1900
Succeeded by
Charles Pierrepont