Grace, Lady Manners

English noblewoman (c.1575 – c.1650)

Lady Manners' death mask Lady Manners school

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

## 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:

* John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (1604–1679)[3]
* Elizabeth Manners, who married Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton
* Eleanor Manners, who married Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham, and had children
* Frances Manners (died 1652), who married Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton, and had children
* Dorothy Manners, who married Sir Thomas Lake

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.

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