Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers

Pierrepont served in the British Army, on the General List, in the First World War from 1914 to 1919, reaching the rank of Captain.

He was decorated with the Military Cross,[1] the Order of the Crown of Belgium,[2] and the Croix de Guerre.

[3] After the First World War, Pierrepont served as a Justice of the Peace for the County of London.

He represented Brixton as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council from 1922 to 1946.

In 1940 he succeeded his cousin Evelyn Robert Pierrepont, 5th Earl Manvers in the earldom and became a member of the House of Lords.