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Personal data Lady Mary Pierrepont dau of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston 

• She was born on May 26, 1689.
• She died on August 21, 1762, she was 73 years old.Source 1
• A child of Evelyn Pierrepont and Mary Feilding
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Lady Mary Pierrepont dau of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston

She is married to Edward (Wortley-Montagu) Montagu.

They got married on August 12, 1715, she was 26 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Mary Montagu  1718-1794 

Notes about Lady Mary Pierrepont dau of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston

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Name: Mary "Mary Wortley Montague" PIERREPOINT
Given Name: Mary "Mary Wortley Montague"
Surname: Pierrepoint
NSFX: Lady
Title: Lady
Sex: F
Birth: 1690
Death: 1762
Event: History 1716 Constantinople, Turkey
Note: In 1716 she accompanied her husband in his embassy to Constantinopl e. To her discernment, Europe is indebted for the introduction of smallp ox by inoculation, but before she recommended it she made the first experi ment upon her own son, and its success proved the means of disseminating t he blessings and the continuation of life to thousands.
Change Date: 30 May 2002 at 20:25
Note:
Various branches of the Montagues in America have the name in their famili es of "Mary Wortley" or the name "Wortley" among some of their childre n. It is derived from the celebrated literary lady in England - the lady M ary Wortley Montague. It becomes of interest, in connection with this wor k, to know something of this lady, to what family of Montague she was a me mber, and in what way the Wortleys were connected with the Montagues.

On the river Don, in the West-riding of Yorkshire is the town of Wortle y, the ancient seat of that family; the male issue of which expired in S ir Francis Wortley, who devised the greatest part of his estate to Anne Ne wcomen, supposed to be his natural daughter, [Camden p. 723.] She marri ed Sidney Montague, second son of Edward first Earl of Sandwich, and broth er of Edward Montague the second Earl of Sandwich. In right of his wi fe he became lord of Wortley and took the name of Wortley.

They had only one son (who lived to manhood) whose name was Edward Wortl ey Montague; he was lord of the Treasury in 1714, also was Ambassador in T urkey end died in 1762. He was a gentleman of great political knowledge a nd influence, and distinguished not only as an eloquent and upright memb er of parliament, but as a friend of Addison. He married in 1712 Lady Mar y, eldest dau. of Evelyn Pierrepoint, Earl and Duke of Kingston. This la dy became the celebrated lady Mary Wortley Montague. Her mother was Mary d au. of William Fielding 3d Earl of Denbigh by a dau. of Sir Robert King, w idow of Sir William Meredith. She was not of Montague descent as far as c an be traced. She was born in 1690, received a very learned education in t he Greek and Latin classics.

In 1716 she accompanied her husband in his embassy to Constantinople. To h er discernment, Europe is indebted for the introduction of smallpox by ino culation, but before she recommended it she made the first experiment up on her own son, and its success proved the means of disseminating the bles sings and the continuation of life to thousands.

Upon her return to England she became a great friend of the poet Pope. T he letters of Lady Montague appeared before the public in 1763. She posses sed great talent, and inexhaustible powers of language. She died in 176 2, leaving one dau. Mary Montague, Baroness Mountstuart, married to John S tuart, Earl of Bute; and one only son Edward Wortley Montague. He was rema rkable for his eccentricities. He ran away from school and became a chimn ey sweep, was restored by accident to his parents, but again he left th em to join himself to a fisherman, after which he embarked as a cabin b oy for Spain, and hired himself there as a servant to a muleteer. He re he was discovered and prevailed upon to return to his friends, who plac ed him under the care of a tutor, and with him he visited many foreign cou ntries.
On his return he was elected member of parliament, and conducted himself w ith a propriety becoming his birth and fortune. But soon he again embark ed for the East. At Constantinople, he adopted the dress and the manne rs of the Turks; he kept a numerous seraglio of wives, he sat cross-legge d, he wore a long beard, and behaved with all the pomp of oriental consequ ence. He died in Italy in 1776 aged about 62. He was an author of boo ks of merit - among them, An Examination into the Causes of Earthquak es - Observations on the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - Account of t he Mountains of Arabia - besides some interesting papers inserted in the P hilosophical transactions.

EVELYN PIERREPONT (c. 1655-1726), 5th earl and ist duke of Kingston, anoth er brother had been member of parliament for East Retford before his acces sion to the peerage. While serving as one of the commissioners for the uni on with Scotland he was created marquess of Dorchester in 1706, and to ok a leading part in the business of the House of Lords. He was made a pri vy councillor and in 1715 was created duke of Kingston; afterwards servi ng as lord privy seal and lord president of the council. The duke, who di ed on the 5th of March 1726, was a prominent figure in the fashionable soc iety of his day. He was twice married, • and had five daughters, among wh om was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (q.v.), and one son, William, earl of Kin gston (d. 1713). The latter's son, EVELYN PIERREPONT (1711-1773), succeed ed his grandfather as second duke of Kingston. When the rebellion of 17 45 broke out he raised a regiment called " Kingston's light horse," whi ch distinguished itself at Culloden. The duke, who attained the rank of ge neral in the army, is described by Horace Walpole as " a very weak ma n, of the greatest beauty and finest person in England." He is chiefly fam ous for his connexion with Elizabeth Chudleigh, who claimed to be duche ss of Kingston (q.v.). The Kingston titles became extinct on the duke's de ath without children on the 23rd of September 1773, but on the death of t he duchess in 1788 the estates came to his nephew Charles Meadows (1737-18 16), who took the name of Pierrepont and was created Baron Pierrepont a nd Viscount Newark in 1796, and Earl Manvers in 1806. His descendant, t he present Earl Manvers, is thus the representative of the dukes of Kingst on.

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