Sir Henry Pierrepont was an English MP who resided at Holme Pierrepont

Holme Pierrepont

Holme Pierrepont is a hamlet located south of the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. It is in the Gamston ward of the Rushcliffe local authority in the East Midlands region....

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Nottinghamshire

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Family

He was the son of Sir George Pierrepont and succeded him in 1564. His mother remarried Sir Gervase Clifton.
He married Frances Cavendish, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Hardwick

Bess of Hardwick

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The children were:

• Grace Pierrepont
  Grace, Lady Manners
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• Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
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• Elizabeth Pierrepont married Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie

Life

He was elected as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

 in 1572, and then took up a series of local appointments, becoming a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 around 1573, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire

High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire

’The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions...

 in 1575–6, and Recorder of Nottingham

Recorder of Nottingham

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in 1603. He was knighted in April 1603.

Source

• The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, volume XI.