GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-000726
NamePhilip Herbert
Title4th Earl of Pembroke
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. 1584-10-10 - d. 1650-01-23 (new)
Linked Manuscripts
Linked SermonsA sermon preached to the Kings houshold at Whitehall on their Communion day the 5 of Jan. 1633 -- dedicatee (autograph: uncertain)
Linked Reports
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Adam Richter; Hannah Wood
Biographical Sources ConsultedODNB (Article: 13042)
Other NotePhilip Herbert, first early of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke, was born on 10 October 1584 in Wiltshire to Henry Herbert, second earl of Pembroke, and his third wife Mary Herbert. He matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1593, but left university after three to four months; he would later be incorporated M.A. in 1605. At James I’s and Charles I’s courts, Herbert accumulated numerous prominent positions: gentleman of the privy chamber (1603), knight of the bath (1603), and gentleman of the bedchamber (1605), knight of the Garter (1608), high steward of Oxford University (1615), keeper of Westminster Palace, Spring Gardens, and St James's Park (1617), lord lieutenant of Kent (1624), privy councillor (December 1624), lord chamberlain of the king’s household (1626), and lord lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1628), lord lieutenant of Wiltshire (1630), lord lieutenant of Somerset (1630–43) and Cornwall (1630–42), high steward of the duchy of Cornwall and lord warden of the Stanneries (1630). Outside his court duties, he was engaged in literary patronage and colonial enterprise. His attempts to broker peace between the Scots and Charles I resulted in his alienation from court, although he continued to enjoy electoral influence. He allied with parliament during the civil war and was against Laudianism; he succeeded Laud as chancellor of Oxford in 1641. Herbert was appointed a member of the council of state in 1649, although he fell ill and began to retreat from public affairs. He died at The Cockpit, Westminster on 23 January 1650 and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral on 9 February. He was married twice: first to Lady Susan De Vere (1587-1629) in 1604, and second to Anne Clifford (1590-1676) in 1630. He had at least four sons with Susan and at least one son with Anne.
GEMMS record createdSeptember 21, 2016
GEMMS record last editedJune 30, 2022