Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet (1606–1682), was an English traveller,
Biography
Herbert was born to a Yorkshire family.
In 1627
He was
There is varied opinion on the matter of Herbert's devotion to King Charles. In 1678 he published Threnodia Carolina, an account of the last two years of the king's life. In this account Herbert seems devoted in the extreme, being too distraught to be with the king on the scaffold and bursting into tears when the king seemed upset by some news he had brought. It is true that many of the staunch Roundheads Parliament appointed to the king's service were converted into royalists on getting to know him. However Threnodia Carolina may have been an attempt to give Herbert a good name in Charles II's government (the king made him a baronet) and to clear the name of his son-in-law Robert Phayre, who was a regicide.[5]
After the execution Herbert followed the
Works
Herbert's chief work is the Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge' the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk (1634), reissued with additions, &c., in 1638 as Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great (al. into divers parts of Asia and Afrigue), a third edition followed in 1664, and a fourth in 1677. This is one of the best records of 17th-century travel. Among its illustrations are remarkable sketches of the dodo, cuneiform inscriptions and Persepolis.[3]
Herbert's Threnodia Carolina; or, Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of that unparallell'd prince of ever blessed memory King Charles I., was in great part printed at the author's request in Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, in full by Dr C Goodall in his Collection of Tracts (1702, repr. G. & W. Nicol, 1813).[3]
Family
Herbert married, on 16 April 1632, Lucia, daughter of Sir Walter Alexander, Gentleman Usher to Charles I. She died in 1671. They had four sons and six daughters, but only one son and three daughters survived their father:[5][6]
- Henry (died 1687), who succeed his father as baronet Herbert of Tintern[7]
- Elizabeth, who married Colonel Robert Phaire of Cork on 16 August 1658[5]
- Lucie
- Anne
Within a year of Lucia's death Herbert married Elizabeth (died 1696), daughter of Gervase Cutler, of Stainbrough, Yorkshire and Magdalen Egerton, and niece of the Earl of Bridgewater. They had one child, a daughter, who died in infancy.[5][6]
Notes
- ^ a b Cousin 1910.
- ^ "York Conservation Trust | Properties | Sir Thomas Herbert's House". www.yorkconservationtrust.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Chisholm 1911, p. 340.
- ^ "Herbert, Thomas (HRBT621T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e f Fritze 2004.
- ^ a b c Rigg 1891, p. 216.
- ^ Rigg 1891, p. 216 cites Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661–2, p. 290; Wotton, Baronetage, iv. 276.
References
- Rigg, James McMullen (1891). Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 215–217. . In
- Fritze, Ronald H. (2004). "Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet (1606–1682)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13049. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). "Herbert, Sir Thomas". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Herbert, Sir Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 340. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Herbert, Sir Thomas (1815), Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of king Charles (3 ed.), G. and W. Nicol
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "H" (part 2) "Herbert of Tintern, Monmouth"