Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon
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Whig
politician.
Background and education
Born in
Career
Herbert joined the
Act of Union 1801 he represented the constituency then in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1811, when he succeeded his father as earl.[4] During his time as Member of Parliament he stirred an investigation into the failure of the Walcheren Campaign in 1809.[5] Herbert was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Somerset in 1803 and served as High Steward of Newbury.[1] He was chosen a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1814 and was vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society.[6]
Marriage and children
On 26 April 1796, he married the heiress
Sir John Dyke Acland, 8th Baronet, who died aged 7.[2] Carnarvon inherited from his wife the substantial Somerset estates of Pixton and Tetton. Kitty died at Shooter's Hill in 1813; Herbert survived her for twenty years until 1833.[6] By his wife he had five children, three daughters and two sons.[7]
- Lady Harriet Elizabeth Herbert (b. 1797), who married Rev. J. C. Stapylton.
- Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800–1849), who married Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard, eldest daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard
- Hon. Edward Charles Hugh Herbert (1802–1852), who married Elizabeth Sweet-Escott, daughter of Prebendary Thomas Sweet-Escott. They had two sons.
- Lady Theresa Elizabeth Mary Herbert (1803–1815)
- Lady Emily Frances Theresa Herbert (d. 1854), who married Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone and maternal grandson of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough. They had one son, and two daughters.
Death and burial
He died, aged 60, at his London residence in Grosvenor Square and was buried at Burghclere in Hampshire.[6] He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Henry.[6]
Porchester's Post
The westernmost boundary of the historic estate of
Exmoor National Park Authority. A brass plaque attached to it is inscribed as follows:[8]
- "First erected in 1796 to mark the boundary of the Carnarvon Estate. Re-erected in memory of Lord Porchester, Earl of Carnarvon, the Chairman of the 1977 inquiry into the protection of moorland on Exmoor and to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002".
Notes
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1913). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. III. Exeter: William Pollard Co. Ltd.
- Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
- Thorne, R. G. (1986). The House of Commons, 1790-1820. Vol. I. London: Secker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-52101-6.
- Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
- Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall.
- Sylvanus, Urban (1833). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part I. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Carnarvon [this link is well meaning but WRONG].
- Portraits of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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