He was elected member of parliament for East Retford in 1689,before his accession to the peerage as 5th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull on the death of his brother in 1690.[3][4] While serving as one of the commissioners for the union with Scotland,he was created Marquess of Dorchester in 1706,and took a leading part in the business of the House of Lords. He was made a privy councillor and in 1715 was created Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull;afterwards serving as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. The Duke was a prominent figure in the fashionable society of his day.[5]
Family
His first wife was Lady Mary Feilding,a daughter of William Feilding,3rd Earl of Denbigh,and his wife Mary King,whom he married in 1687. They had three daughters and a son:[6]
William Pierrepont,Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull,who died of smallpox,aged 20,in July 1713. He married Rachel,(legal daughter of Thomas Baynton of Little Chalfield,Wiltshire,but biological daughter and heiress of John Hall of Bradford,Wiltshire),[7][8] and had a daughter Frances (died 1795) and a son Evelyn.
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