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.
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Pierrepont was the third son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and his wife Gertrude Talbot, daughter of Henry Talbot.[1]
In April 1640, Pierrepont was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford in the Short Parliament.[2] In the Civil War, Pierrepont raised a regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands in Nottingham for the parliamentary army of which he became Colonel.[3][4] In 1645 he was elected MP for Nottingham in the Long Parliament.[5]
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.[1] His eldest son was Robert, who became an MP for Nottingham. His daughter Frances married William Paget, 6th Baron Paget.
- ^ a b "Cracroft Peerage". Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ^ Willis 1750, p. 234.
- ^ Hutchinson & Hutchinson 1808, p. 117.
- ^ Lowe, p. 5.
- ^ Willis 1750b, p. 239.