Grace, Lady Manners (c. 1575c. 1650) was an English noblewoman who lived at Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire. She founded Bakewell's Lady Manners School in 1636.

Lady Manners' death mask
Lady Manners school

Biography

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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, she married 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.

References

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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
  3. ^ Leslie Stephen (1893). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 51.
  4. ^ Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. The Society. 1919. p. 83.