Английская Википедия:Grace, Lady Manners

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Lady Manners school

Grace, Lady Manners (Шаблон:CircaШаблон:Circa) 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 Grace was married to 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:

On 20 May 1636, she founded Lady Manners School in Bakewell, Derbyshire.[4]

Her body is interred in Bakewell Parish Church.

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  1. 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.
  2. Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, 2003), p. 3447
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