Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers

Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers (2 August 1854 – 17 July 1926),^[1] known as Viscount Newark from 1860 to 1900, was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician.

Career

Born in London, he was the eldest son of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers. He was styled by the courtesy title of Viscount Newark from 1860 until succeeded to his father's peerage in 1900.

Newark was a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards from 1872 until retiring in 1880, and subsequently held a variety of Yeomanry posts: Brigadier-General commanding the North Midlands Infantry Volunteers, captain of the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and honorary colonel in the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.

He was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark division of Nottinghamshire.^[2] He was re-elected unopposed in 1886 and 1892,^[2] and stood down at the 1895 general election.^[2] However, his Conservative successor Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton resigned in 1898, and was Viscount Newark returned unopposed at the resulting by-election.^[2] He held the seat until his succession to the peerage in 1900.^[1]

The 4th Earl was a keen sportsman and was Master of the Rufford Hunt from 1900.^{[citation needed]}

Family and children

In 1880 he married Helen Shaw-Stewart, daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet.

• Lady Cicely Mary Pierrepont (1886–1936), married Francis Henry Hardy of Edith Weston Hall, Rutland, in 1915
• Evelyn Robert Pierrepont, 5th Earl Manvers (1888–1940)
• Lady Alice Helen Pierrepont (30 August 1889 – 8 March 1969), buried at Ystrad Mynach
• Lady Sibell Pierrepont (1892–1968), married Hubert Davys Argles in 1923

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 367. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 

Sources

• "4th Earl Manvers Bio". http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/family-estate/collections/manvers/4th_earl_manvers.phtml. Retrieved 2006-01-03. ^{[dead link]}
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Pierrepont (Viscount Newark)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Earp William Newzam Nicholson	Member of Parliament for Newark 1885 – 1895	Succeeded by Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton
Preceded by Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton	Member of Parliament for Newark 1898 – 1900	Succeeded by Sir Charles Welby, Bt
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sydney Pierrepont	Earl Manvers 1900–1926	Succeeded by Evelyn Pierrepont

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