Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers

Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers MC, JP (15 April 1881 – 13 February 1955), known as Gervas Pierrepont until 1940, was a British nobleman, soldier, landowner, and member of the House of Lords.

The eldest son of the Honourable Evelyn Henry Pierrepont, second son of Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, Pierrepont was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. He served in the British Army, on the General List, in the First World War from 1914–1919, reaching the rank of Captain. He also served on the Claims Commission in Belgium from 1916–1917. He was decorated with the Military Cross, the Order of the Crown of Belgium, and the Croix de Guerre.

After the First World War, Pierrepont served as a Justice of the Peace for the County of London. He represented Brixton as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council from 1922 to 1946. He unsuccessfully contested Broxtowe as a Conservative in 1929. In 1940 he succeeded a cousin as Earl Manvers.

Family and children

In 1918 Pierrepont married Marie-Louise Roosevelt Butterfield (1889–1984), daughter of Sir Frederick Butterfield of Cliffe Castle, Keighley, and they had three children:

• Mary Helen Venetia Pierrepont (1920–1930)
• Evelyn Louis Butterfield Pierrepont (1924–1928)
• Lady Frederica Rozelle Ridgway Pierrepont (born 1925), an author, under the pen name of Rozelle Raynes, married in 1953 Major Alexander Montgomerie Greaves Beattie (divorced 1961), and in 1965 Richard Hollings Raynes. She inherited the Pierrepont estates on the death of her father.

Marie-Louise, Countess Manvers, was a talented and productive artist under the name of Marie-Louise Pierrepont. Lord Manvers died in February 1955, aged 73, when the Earldom became extinct. A memorial to him is in the parish church at Perlethorpe.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Manvers