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  Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and 1st marquess of Dorchester (1606 - December 8, 1680), was member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, and was called to the House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont in 1641.
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 fine to the parliamentarians.
Afterwards the marquess, who was always fond of books, spent his time mainly in London engaged in the study of medicine and law, his devotion to the former science bringing upon him a certain amount of ridicule and abuse.
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 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (1606 – 8 December 1680) was an English peer, the son of the 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Afterwards, Lord Dorchester, who was always fond of books, spent his time mainly in London engaged in the study of medicine and law, his devotion to the former science bringing upon him a certain amount of ridicule and abuse.
Dorchester had two daughters, but no sons, and when he died in London on 8 December 1680 the Marquessate of Dorchester became extinct.
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 Earls and dukes of Kingston-Upon-Hull - LoveToKnow 1911
His son Henry Pierrepont (1606-1680), 2nd earl of Kingston and Ist marquess of Dorchester, was member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, and was called to the House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont in 1641.
While serving as one of the commissioners for the union with Scotland he was created marquess of Dorchester in 1706, and took a leading part in the business of the House of Lords.
He was made a privy councillor and in 1715 was created duke of Kingston; afterwards serving as lord privy seal and lord president of the council.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS (March 1606 – 8 December 1680) was an English peer, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
During the earlier part of the English Civil War he was at Oxford in attendance upon the King, whom he represented at the negotiations at Uxbridge.
Dorchester survived his sons and when he died in London on 8 December 1680 the Marquessate of Dorchester became extinct.
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 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - LoveToKnow 1911
The letters on Anne's side, however, were often copied from drafts written by her brother, Edward Wortley Montagu, and after Anne's death in 1709 the correspondence between him and Lady Mary was prosecuted without an intermediary.
Lady Mary's father, now marquess of Dorchester, declined, however, to accept Montagu as a sonin-law because he refused to entail his estate on a possible heir.
Negotiations were broken off, and when the marquess insisted on another marriage for his daughter the pair eloped (1 712).
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 ROBERT PIERREPONT (158... - Online Information article about ROBERT PIERREPONT (158...
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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:
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 List of Marquessates in the peerages of the British Isles Information
2 Marquessates in the Peerage of Scotland, 1488-1707
4 Marquessates in the Peerage of Ireland, 1642-1825
Marquessates in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 1801-present
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  Boxing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.
With the gradual acceptance of Marquess of Queensberry Rules, two distinct branches of boxing emerged, professional and amateur, and each produced its own local, national and international governing bodies and its own variation of the rules.
By 1867, when the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry lent his name to John Graham Chambers' rules, sporting fisticuffs had become a nearly perfect replacement for dueling.
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 HOLLES - LoveToKnow Article on HOLLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The earl of Clarewas, however, no friend to the Stuart administration, beingespecially hostile to the duke of Buckingham; and on theaccession of Charles to the throne the kings offers of favor were rejected.
On the 15th of June he carried up the impeachment of the nine Lords who had deserted the parliament; and he was one of the committee of safety appointed on the 4th of July.
On the outbreak of the Civil War (see GREAT REBELLION) Holles, who had been made lieutenant of Bristol, was sent with Bedford to the west against the marquess of Hertford, and took part in the unsuccessful siege of the latter at Sherborne Castle.
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 The Wallace Collection - The Collection - The 3rd Marquess of Hertford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Francis Charles Seymour Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, was the son of the 2nd Marquess.
The future 4th Marquess was born of this marriage in 1800, but soon after the 3rd Marquess and Maria visited Paris in 1802 they became estranged and from that time led separate lives.
She remained in Paris, while the 3rd Marquess established splendid residences in London at Dorchester House (on the site of the present Dorchester Hotel) and at St Dunstan’s Villa in Regent’s Park (demolished in 1937).
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 Biography of Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingsto - Family and Estate Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collections - ...
Biography of Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and Marquess of Dorchester (1607-1680)
Following the King's defeat, in 1647 the Marquess compounded for his estates and was fined £7,467 for delinquency.
A portrait of the Marquess is available on the webpage of the Dorchester Library at the Royal College of Physicians.
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 George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham - LoveToKnow 1911
Buckingham avoided the encounter, and Ossory was sent to the Tower.
The offending peers were both sent to the Tower, but were released after apologizing; and Buckingham vented his spite by raising a claim to the title of Lord Roos held by Dorchester's son-in-law.
His opposition to the government had forfeited the king's favour, and he was now accused of treasonable intrigues, and of having cast the king's horoscope.
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 New England Historic Genealogical Society
Israel, a commander against the Pequot Indians in 1637, and later a lieutenant colonel in the English Parliamentary army, was a founder of Dorchester, is treated in the Dictionary of National Biography (British), and married Elizabeth Knight, an aunt of collegiate benefactor Elihu Yale.
Israel’s eldest brother, Reverend John Stoughton, was a graduate of Emmanuel College, a London vicar, and a stepfather of noted divine Ralph Cudworth and of the immigrant James Cudworth of Scituate, Mass.
Daughters of the 1st Marquess married a governor general of Australia and governor of New Zealand and a great-granddaughter of the 1st Marquess is author (Lady) Caroline Blackwood, whose husbands include the painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund, and the American poet Robert Lowell.
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 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu at AllExperts
She was the eldest daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, who succeeded his brother as 5th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull when she was aged one and was later created Marquess of Dorchester and then Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, and was baptized at Covent Garden.
Lady Mary's father, now Marquess of Dorchester, rejected Wortley Montagu as a son-in-law because he refused to entail his estate on a possible heir.
Negotiations were broken off, and when Lord Dorchester insisted on another marriage for his daughter, Edward and Mary eloped (1712).
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 Lady Mary Wortley Montague eBook
He was created Marquess of Dorchester in 1645.
He was Commissioner of Claims at the Coronation of Charles II, and in 1662 and again in 1673 he acted as Joint Commissioner of the office of Earl Marshal.
He was twice married, but had no direct heirs, and on his death in 1680 the marquessate became extinct.
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 The Wallace Collection - The Collection - England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Whilst Hertford House is now indelibly associated with the Seymour-Conway family and their collections, it was in fact only acquired by the family in 1794, when the 2nd Marquess of Hertford acquired the lease and made it his home from 1797.
However, neither the 3rd nor the 4th Marquesses lived at Manchester House, as it was then called.
The 3rd Marquess lived at Dorchester House on Park Lane and also built himself a splendid villa, St Dunstan’s Villa, in Regent’s Park.
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 Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Thoresby (1)
Henry, first Marquis of Dorchester, eldest son of Robert Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston, was born in 1606.
While at Oxford, Dorchester earned great reputation with the soldiers by his opposition to the rest of the council in their determination to surrender Oxford.
Early in life Dorchester was greatly addicted to learning, seldom spending less than ten or twelve hours in the day at his books; and when the war was over he returned to his studies.
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 Manvers family history - Family and Estate Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham
The Marquess of Dorchester died without male issue in 1680, when he was succeeded as 3rd Earl of Kingston by his great-nephew Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby.
Henry Pierrepont, 2nd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and Marquess of Dorchester (1607-1680)
After the death of the Marquess of Dorchester in 1680, the Pierrepont family were based at Thoresby and used Holme Pierrepont as a second residence, a dower house, or a house for elder sons prior to their inheritance.
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 RENAISSANCE MAN: THE RECONSTRUCTED LIBRARIES OF EUROPEAN SCHOLARS, 1450-1700 Series One: The Books and Manuscripts of ...
Dee-Saunder books are found not only in the library which Henry Pierrepont, Marquess of Dorchester (1606-1680) left to the College of Physicians in 1687 or 1688 but also among the books of Archbishop William Wake (1657-1737) at Christ Church, Oxford.
Some of the latter had formerly been part of the Dorchester Library as they are listed in the 1664 catalogue of the Dorchester Library.
Both refer to the Marquess of Dorchester as "Henry Pierrepoint".
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 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Born in 1689 to Evelyn and Mary Pierrepont, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is remembered primarily as a letter writer.
Her father was a wealthy Whig who later became the Marquess of Dorchester, and Lady Mary, like other aristocratic women of her time, was educated at home.
In her father's library she secretly taught herself Latin, and by 1710 she had translated Epictetus' Enchiridion and sent a copy to a London bishop with a letter advocating a woman's right to formal education.
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From the Haddon Hall Library edited by the Marquess of Granby and Mr.
Haddon Hall Library edition edited by the Marquess of Granby and Mr.
Edited by the Kate Marquess of Granby and Mr.
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 Slake Archive - The Making of A Marchioness
Armed with the knowledge her sister had neglected to learn, Dagmara was prepared and able to conquer the heart of the notoriously cold-hearted Marquess of Maidstone and take her rightful place in the Marquess' secluded Nottinghamshire manor.
The capable, but discreet manager of the Marquess' estate, Romain Gordon-Cumming was never supposed to involve himself in the round of entertainment the Marquess frequently hosted on his estate.

The capable, but discreet manager of the Marquess' estate, Romain Gordon-Cumming was never supposed to involve himself in the round of entertainment the Marquess frequently hosted on his estate.

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 thePeerage.com - Nicholas Charles Arbuthnott and others
Henry Pierrepont, 1st and last Marquess of Dorchester (M) b.
     Henry Pierrepont, 1st and last Marquess of Dorchester was born in March 1606/7.
He gained the title of Marquess of Dorchester.
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 Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull at AllExperts
The Dukedom of Kingston-upon-Hull, named after Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, was created in 1715 and became extinct in 1773.
Other titles associated with the Dukedom, all of which became extinct along with it, included: Marquess of Dorchester (created 1706), Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (1628), Viscount Newark (1628) and Baron Pierrepont (1627).
*Evelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (1665-1726) (created Marquess of Dorchester in 1706 and Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1715)
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 RCP architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Statues of Cutler and Charles II by the Flemish sculptor Arnold Quellin (1653-1686) decorated the building and these are now in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
In 1680 Henry Pierrepont, Marquess of Dorchester (1607–1680) presented his magnificent library to the College, on the condition that the collection should never be broken up or sold, the books should remain in the same order, and that the College would build a suitable library to house them.
The collection was installed after Sir Christopher Wren made the necessary alterations to the building; a record of Wren’s coach fares is recorded in the College accounts of 1686.
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 Addenda
APPENDIX C. [From page 559 to 567, is the reprint of a rare quarto tract of 22 pages, of which there is a copy in the library of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort; and another in the British Museum, C. d.
A Pardon granted to Edward Marquesse of Worcester of all suchI offences, andc.
His Majesty is graciously pleased to refer this honourable Petitioner, and his suit, to the Right honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Engand, and tho LorD Privy Seal, the Duke of Albermarle, the Marquis of Dorchester, the Earl of Anglesey, the Earl of foutherdale, the Lord Holles, the Lord Ashley, myself, and Mr.
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 Regency - Ste to Sum
She was even more troubled when she saw the interloper--Robert Manville, Fifth Marquess of Ravenstoke, dressed in his elegant finery, with his flawless manners and sophisticated ways.
More disturbing still was the discovery that Ravenstoke was grandson to a brutal English general whose suppression of a highland rebellion made his name infamous amongst her family and people.
Should the truth come out, her parents would be furious, her engagement to the sterling Marquess of Dorchester would be ended, and her reputation would be ruined.
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 Visit London Business Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The magnificent Dorchester Library is the "jewel in the crown" of the Royal College of Physicians.
Founded in 1518 and now housed in Lasdun’s modernist Grade I listed building in Regent's Park, it became one of the most important private collections outside of Oxford and Cambridge.
After the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the Library, the Marquess of Dorchester, a College Fellow, donated his own impressive collection.
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 New England Historic Genealogical Society
Among major sponsors of American colonies, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine and generally known as its founder even though he never immigrated, was a seventh-generation descendant, via Gorges and Poyntz, of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, brother of the queen.
Before her marriage to Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville married Sir John Grey, son of the heiress of the barons Ferrers of Groby, and left a son, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (d.
A nephew of Nova Scotia governor Sir Thomas Temple, Nelson had a sister Margaret who is alleged to have married Rev. Thomas Teackle of Accomack County, Virginia.
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