Sir Herbert Mackworth, 1st Baronet (1 January 1737 – 25 October 1791) was a British lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the

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for 24 years from 1766 to 1790. Portrait of Sir Herbert Mackworth Bart

Mackworth was the only son of

Herbert Mackworth Herbert Mackworth (7 September 1687 – 20 August 1765) was a Welsh landowner, coal owner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1739 to 1765. Early life Mackworth was the son of Sir Humphrey Mackworth of Gnoll, Glamorganshir ...

of the Gnoll, Glamorgan and was educated at

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and Magdalen College, Oxford. He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn, was called to the bar in 1759 and practised as a barrister. He inherited the Gnoll estate on the death of his father in 1765 and continued to develop the estates industrial assets such as the Gnoll copper works at Neath. Mackworth was first elected

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for

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in 1766 and represented the borough in five consecutive parliaments until 1790. He was created a

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on 17 September 1776. He was Major and then Lieutenant-colonel of the Glamorgan Militia between 1761 and 1791 and was a vice-president of the

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. In 1777 he was elected a

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as a ''"gentleman well versed in Natural history and every branch of Mathematical and Philosophical learning"'' Mackworth died at his seat at Gnoll Castle in 1791. "His death was occasioned by a thorn breaking in his finger, which brought on a violent inflammation and swelling in the hand and arm, no medical assistance being called in till a month after the accident happened". He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert Cotton Trefusis of Trefusis, Cornwall and with her had two sons and a daughter, Elizabeth Anne who married

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on 19 February 1795.England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973

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Herbert Mackworth's personal collection of music scores
is housed at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University. 1737 births 1791 deaths People from Neath People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Glamorgan Militia officers Fellows of the Royal Society Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain {{Wales-GreatBritain-MP-stub

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