Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers

Who was Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers?

Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers MC, JP, known as Gervas Pierrepont until 1940, was a British nobleman and soldier.

The eldest son of the Honourable Evelyn Henry Pierrepont, second son of Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, Gervas was educated at Winchester College and Coopers Hill. He served in the British Army, on the General List, in the First World War from 1914–1919, reaching the rank of Captain. He also served on the Claims Commission in Belgium from 1916–1917. He was decorated with the Military Cross, the Order of the Crown of Belgium and the Croix de Guerre.

After the war, Pierrepont was 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. He unsuccessfully contested Broxtowe as a Conservative in 1929. He succeeded his cousin as sixth Earl Manvers in 1940.