Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull

Arms of Pierrepont: Argent semée of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant sable

General Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG (1711 – 23 September 1773) was an English nobleman and landowner, a member of the House of Lords. He was the only son of William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston (1692–1713) and his wife, Rachel Bayntun (1695–1722).

His paternal grandparents were Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and his wife Mary Feilding, a daughter of William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, while his maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Willoughby and her husband Thomas Bayntun of Little Chalfield, Wiltshire, or else her lover John Hall of Bradford-on-Avon. He succeeded his grandfather in 1726, inheriting the Thoresby estate in Nottinghamshire.

Pierrepont was the subject of the earliest extant reference to cricket in Nottinghamshire. A letter dated 1751 comments that: "the Duke of Kingston at Thoresby Hall is spending all his time practising cricket because he is to play for Eton v All England in three matches".^[1]

On 8 March 1769, Pierrepont married Elizabeth Hervey at Keith's Chapel in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, although their marriage was later alleged to have been bigamous. He died in 1773 without issue, and Pierrepont's titles became extinct. On the death of the Duchess in 1788, the Pierrepont estates passed to Charles Medows, who was the son of the 2nd Duke's sister - Lady Frances Medows. Charles Medows later changed his name to Pierrepont when, in 1806, he was created the first Earl Manvers.

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