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Francis Pierrepont (died 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Pierrepont was the third son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and his wife Gertrude Talbot, daughter of Henry Talbot.
In April 1640, Pierrepont was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford in the Short Parliament. In the Civil War, Pierrepont raised a regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands in Nottingham for the parliamentary army of which he became Colonel. In 1645 he was elected MP for Nottingham in the Long Parliament.
He built Pierrepont House in Nottingham in the mid-17th century.
Pierrepont died in 1659. He had married Elizabeth Bray, daughter of Thomas Bray, of Eyam, Derbyshire, and had issue. His eldest son was Robert, who became an MP for Nottingham. His daughter Frances married William Paget, 6th Baron Paget.
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Hutchinson, Lucy Apsley; Hutchinson, Julius (1808), South African traits, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, p. 117
Capt A.E. Lawson Lowe, Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters; or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, London: Mitchell, 1872.
Willis, Browne (1750), "Short Parliament", Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ..., London, p. 234
Willis, Browne (1750b), "Long Parliament", Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ..., London, p. 239
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