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English noblewoman (c.1575 – c.1650)
Lady Manners' death mask
Lady Manners school
Grace, Lady Manners (
c. 1575 –
c. 1650 ) was an
English
noblewoman who lived at
Haddon Hall near
Bakewell ,
Derbyshire . She founded Bakewell's
Lady Manners School in 1636.
Biography
Grace Pierrepont was the daughter of Sir
Henry Pierrepont , a
Knight of the Garter , and Frances Cavendish.
[1] Her maternal grandparents were Sir
William Cavendish and
Bess of Hardwick . Grace's brother was
Robert Pierrepont , born in 1584, who became the 1st
Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull . Grace's sister,
Elizabeth , married
Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie .
On 1 August 1593, she married Sir
George Manners (1569–1623) of
Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, a
Member of Parliament .
[2] According to the inscription in
Bakewell Church , she had nine children, including:
John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (1604–1679)
[3]
Elizabeth Manners, who married
Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton
Eleanor Manners, who married
Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham , and had children
Frances Manners (died 1652), who married Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd
Viscount Castleton , and had children
Dorothy Manners, who married Sir Thomas Lake
On 20 May 1636, she founded
Lady Manners School in Bakewell, Derbyshire.
[4]
Her body is interred in
Bakewell Parish Church .
References
^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom ; new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, p. 263.
^ Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage , 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, 2003), p. 3447
^ Leslie Stephen (1893).
DNB . Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 51.
^
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society . The Society. 1919. p. 83.