Family and Education
b. c. 1592,Assuming age 18 at admiss. to I. Temple. 1st s. of Charles Herbert of Montgomery, Mont. and Jane, da. and h. of Hugh ap Owen of Aston. Dwnn, Vis. Wales ed. S.R. Meyrick, i. 312; NLW, CPD 691, f. 7v. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 1608; I. Temple 1610, called 1618.Al. Ox.; I. Temple Admiss.; CITR, ii. 107. m. Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Smith†, clerk of the parliaments 1597-1609, of Parson’s Green, Fulham, Mdx., wid. of Thomas Carey* (d.1634) of Whitehall and Parson’s Green, 3s. Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 137. suc. fa. aft. 1626; Fa. was a j.p. until 1626: JPs in Wales and Monm. ed. Phillips, 132-9. Kntd. 28 Jan. 1641. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 208. d. 1970.Nicholas Pprs IV ed. G.F. Warner (Cam. Soc. ser. 3. xxxi), 32-3. sig. Edw[ard] Herbert.
Offices Held

Member, Virg. Co. 1619 – 24; cttee. 1621–4.Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, i. 281, 473.

J.p. Westminster, Mdx. 1621–42; C213/4, f. 117. commr. oyer and terminer, London 1621 – 41, the Verge 1626–39. Oxf. circ. 1641–2, C181/3, ff. 47, 198v, 217; 181/5, ff. 154v, 200v, 214, 219. sewers, Westminster 1627, Mdx. 1634, 1637, Gt. Fens 1640 – 41, Essex 1642, C181/3, f. 213v; 181/4, f.191; 181/5, ff. 69v, 81, 168, 196v, 214v, 227v. piracy, London 1630, Suss. 1637. C181/4, f. 37; 181/5, f. 68.

Steward, Marshalsea Ct. 1627 – 30, Palace Ct. 1630–4; C181/3, f. 217; 181/4, f. 158; CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 281. recorder, Salisbury, Wilts. 1634–5; W.R. Prest, Rise of the Barristers, 251. bencher, I. Temple 1634–42;CITR, ii. 216. att. gen. to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1635–40; C66/2673/11. KC 1635–40;Law Officers and King’s Counsel ed. J.C. Sainty (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. vii), 85. reader, I. Temple 1635, treas. 1638–9;CITR, ii. 220, 245. sol. gen. 1640 – 41; att. gen. 1641–5;Law Officers and King’s Counsel, 46, 62. ld. kpr. 1653–4. R. Hutton, Charles II, 74, 86.

Main residences: Aston, Mont; the Inner Temple, London.
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Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

HERBERT, Edward (c.1592-1657)

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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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