William Herbert (died 1646)

William Herbert (1621–1646) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War

For other people with the same name, see William Herbert (disambiguation).

Herbert was the fifth son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his wife Susan de Vere, daughter of the 17th earl of Oxford. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 29 January 1635 aged 13 and was awarded MA on 31 August 1636. He was of Wilton, Wiltshire.[1]

In November 1640, Herbert was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire and Woodstock in the Long Parliament, and chose to sit for Monmouthshire.[2] He supported the King and was disabled from sitting on 5 February 1644.

Herbert died unmarried at the age of 25.[3]

References
  1. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Hawten-Hider', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 679-705. Date accessed: 18 June 2011
  2. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  3. W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales
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