Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Carnarvon
FRS
The Earl of Carnarvon.
Personal details
Born 8 June 1800
London, England
Died 10 December 1849 (1849-12-11) (aged 49)
Pusey, Oxfordshire
Nationality British
Political party Tory
Spouse(s) Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard (died 1876)
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford

Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, FRS (8 June 1800 – 10 December 1849), styled Lord Porchester from 1811 to 1833, was a British writer, traveller, nobleman, and politician.

Background and education

Herbert was born in London, the eldest son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon by his wife Elizabeth Kitty Acland, daughter of John Dyke Acland of Pixton Park in Somerset. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

Public life

In 1831 Porchester was elected to the House of Commons for Wootton Bassett as a Tory, a seat he held until the following year when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act.[1][2] In 1833 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1841.[1] It was during Carnarvon's lifetime that the family seat of Highclere Castle was redesigned and rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry into a Victorian mansion.

Cricket

Herbert played first-class cricket in 1822 when he was recorded in one match, totalling 1 run with a highest score of 1 and holding 2 catches.[3]

Marriage & progeny

In 1830 Lord Carnarvon married Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard (d.1876[1]), eldest daughter of Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard (younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk), by whom he had three sons and two daughters:

  • Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, born 1831, eldest son and heir, a prominent Conservative politician.
  • Dr. The Hon. Alan Percy Harty Molyneux Howard Herbert (1836-1907),[4] second son, of Tetton, Kingston St Mary, Somerset, a doctor of medicine who was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government in 1871 for his service as a doctor during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, and remained there as the physician in charge of the Hertford Hospital until 1901.[5] He inherited the estate of Tetton (a former Acland property) from his first cousin Edward Henry Charles Herbert (1837-1870),[6] only son of Edward Charles Hugh Herbert (1802-1852) of Tetton, MP for Callington, second son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, husband of the heiress Kitty Acland.
  • Hon. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Howard Herbert (1838-1906), third son, a writer, theorist, philosopher, and individualist, a MP for Nottingham 1870–1874.
  • Lady Eveline Alicia Juliana Howard Herbert (1834-1906) (Countess of Portsmouth), who married Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth.[7] Her memorial stained glass window survives in Brushford Church in Somerset, near her father's mansion at Pixton Park.
  • Lady Gwendolen Ondine Herbert Herbert, born in 1842.[8][9]

Death & burial

He died at Pusey, Oxfordshire in December 1849, aged 49, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 thepeerage.com Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
  3. ↑ "Henry Herbert". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  4. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4cff63fd-c461-42e2-a5f3-5a024697db82
  5. ↑ Hardinge, Arthur 'Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Fourth Earl of Carnarvon' (OUP 1920) pp 31-39
  6. ↑ Hampshire Archives and Local Studies 75M91 - Carnavon of Highclere Papers, 75M91/Y5-Y38
  7. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p20555.htm#i205550
  8. ↑ Mair, Robert H. (1884). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. London: Dean and Son. pp. 127–28. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index 1837-1915". Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com, LLC. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Viscount Mahon
Thomas Hyde Villiers		 Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett
1831–1832
With: Viscount Mahon		 Constituency abolished
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Henry George Herbert		 Earl of Carnarvon
1833–1849		 Succeeded by
Henry Howard Herbert
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