Grace Pierrepont 68
Grace, Lady Manners, founded in the year 1636 a free-school for instructing the poor children of Bakewell and Great-Rowsley in reading, writing, etc., and endowed it with a rent-charge of 15 pounds per annum, issuing out of lands at Elton.
Grace married Sir George Manners, son of Sir John Manners and Dorothy Vernon, on 1 Aug 1593. (Sir George Manners was born in 1573 and died on 23 Apr 1623.) |
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