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November 1737 – 17 June 1816) was a British naval officer and politician who

sat in the House of Commons from 1778 to 1796 when he

was raised to Born Charles Medows, sometimes Meadows,

he was the second son of Philip Meadows, deputy ranger of Richmond Park,

by his marriage to Lady Frances Pierrepont, daughter of William, Earl of

Kingston (1692–1713). Charles Medows – the son of Lady Frances

Medows née Pierrepont (d.1795) – was the great grandson and

the heir apparent of Evelyn

Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. William,

Earl of Kingston, predeceased his father, Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of

Kingston-Upon-Hull; thus the Dukedom and estates devolved on William's

son, Evelyn Pierrepont,

2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, who was Lady Frances's brother. The

2nd Duke, however, died childless, leaving Charles Medows, his nephew, as the

eventual heir to

the estates. Charles (Medows) Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers was the great

grandson of Sir Philip Meadows (d. 1718), the

successful parliamentarian. In 1710, Sir Philip's

fellow parliamentarian, Sir John

Guise, 3rd Bart., was "informed by Queen Anne that Sir Philip had been

promised the position as Envoy to Hanover, the

role Guise had envisaged for himself.[4][5] Sir

Philip Meadows was knighted in 1658, sent as an Ambassador to

Sweden and Denmark. In

1717, Sir Philip's son, Sir Philip

Meadowes (d. 1757), was one of the twelve members of the Board

of General Officers, working with Sir Robert Walpole, the First Commissioner (Lord) of the Treasury.

Earlier, on 2 July 1700 he was appointed, as his father had been,

knight-marshal of the King's Household, and was formally knighted by King William on 23 December 1700

at Hampton Court. Sir

Philip's daughter, Mary (d.1743), was a Maid of

honour to Queen Caroline and his first cousin was

Philip Meadows (d.1752), who had been Mayor of Norwich in

1734. On 29 May of that year, Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole presented Mayor Meadows

with his personal gift: the city's new silver mace which

bore Walpole's own coat-of-arms. Like

Prime Minister Walpole, Mayor Meadows had accumulated vast wealth owing to

their success with the South Sea

Company.Another of Sir Philip's sons, Sir Sidney

Meadows, was also knight-marshal of the Kings Palace. Sidney died

in Andover in 1792. Like his brother Philip,

Sidney was Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park and worked under Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute who, by

1761, had been appointed Ranger by George III.

At this time - shortly after he ascended the throne in 1760 - the King was sold

the Rangership by his daughter Princess Amelia. King

George, having appointed the third Lord Bute as Ranger, continued to keep up an

interest in the park and instigated many repairs and improvements with Sir

Sidney (and at times his brother Philip) as deputy. When Lord Bute died in 1792

the King took the Rangership back into his own keeping and for a short time

areas were given over to farming. Sir Sydney died in 1792, aged 91, having

worked alongside the King, managing the park's agricultural and grazing

branches. Educated at Oxford,

Medows became a midshipman in the Royal Navy and

was promoted to lieutenant on 7 August 1755. He became

a commander on 5 April 1757 in Renown,

a 20-gun sloop, but on 17 August the same year was promoted to post-captain in

the frigate Shannon, and was ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. He commanded her until

April 1761, when Vice-Admiral Saunders appointed

him to the 50-gun frigate Isis, replacing

Captain Edward Wheeler, who had been killed during the capture of the French

ship Oriflamme. Medows

continued on Isis, in the Mediterranean, until the end of the war

in 1763, and in 1769 retired altogether from the Navy. In 1773,

Medows's uncle, Evelyn

Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, died and left his

estates at Thoresby and elsewhere to his wife Elizabeth,

Duchess of Kingston, the former wife of the Earl of Bristol. The

duke's nephews challenged the will on the grounds of bigamy,

and the proceedings which followed established that the marriage of the Duchess

had indeed been bigamous. However, this was found not to affect her

inheritance, so she was able to retain the Pierrepont estates until her death,

which took place in August 1788. Upon inheriting the estates, Medows adopted

the surname of Pierrepont by Royal Licence. A watercolour sketch

entitled In Captain Pierrepont's Grounds was made by the

Preston-born artist Anthony Devis (1729–1817). His family's

political dynasty ensured that Medows was a well connected, if not As a Whig, Medows had been on

good terms with Horace Walpole, the son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. Horace had voiced his

concern about the impending death of Medows' uncle, the 2nd Duke of

Kingston. With

the patronage of the prime minister's protégé, Thomas Pelham Holles, 1st Duke of

Newcastle, Medows was returned as one of the Members of 1778. He continued to sit in the Commons as a knight of the shire until he was ennobled

in 1796. In Parliament, Medows (Pierrepont) supported the Duke of Portland,

whose influence helped him to be raised to the peerage as Baron

Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont in the County of Nottingham, and Viscount

Newark, of Newark-on-Trent in the County of

Nottingham, on 23 July 1796, and on 1 April 1806 he was promoted to an

earldom as Earl Manvers. In

the Lords, Manvers supported agricultural reform

and was vice-president of the Board of Agriculture in

1803. He died in 1816 and was buried at Holme Pierrepont.

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