Earl Manvers

Edward Medows (died 1813), brother of the first Earl, was a captain in the Royal Navy.

Sir William Medows, brother of the first Earl, was a General in the British Army.

The ancestral seat of the Earls Manvers was Thoresby Hall, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire.

The hall itself, built in the 1860s by the third Earl to the designs of Anthony Salvin was the 3rd building on the site replacing a smaller Georgian house which in turn had replaced a large Baroque house designed by Talman which had burned down.

It remained the home of the last Countess Manvers until her death aged 95 in 1984 and was subsequently sold by the family and is now a hotel and conference venue.

The arms of the head of the Pierrepont family are blazoned Argent semée of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant sable.