Sir Herbert Mackworth, 1st Baronet (1 January 1737 – 25 October 1791) was a British lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons for 24 years from 1766 to 1790.
Mackworth was the only son of
Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll, Glamorgan and was educated at
Westminster School and
Magdalen College, Oxford
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. 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
Member of Parliament for
Cardiff in 1766 and represented the borough in five consecutive parliaments until 1790. He was created a
baronet
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on 17 September 1776.
[
He was Major and then Lieutenant-colonel of the ]Glamorgan Militia
The Glamorganshire Militia, later the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry, was an auxiliary regiment reorganised in the county of Glamorganshire in South Wales during the 18th Century from earlier precursor units. Primarily intended for home defence ...
between 1761 and 1791 and was a vice-president of the Marine Society
The Marine Society is a British charity, the world's first established for seafarers. In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Years' War against France, Austria, and Saxony (and subsequently the Mughal Empire, Spain, Russia and Sweden) Britain u ...
. In 1777 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 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 Francis Drake (diplomat)
Francis Drake (1764–1821), of Yardbury and Wells, was a British diplomat, holding positions at Genoa and Munich during the Napoleonic Wars.
Francis Drake was the son of Rev. Francis Drake, Vicar of Seaton and Beer. In 1790 Drake was appoint ...
on 19 February 1795.[England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973]
See also
* List of abolitionist forerunners
References
External links
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
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