William Herbert, 3rd Marquess of Powis (1698 – 8 March 1748), styled Viscount Montgomery until 1745, was an English peer.
The only son of
William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis
William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis (c. 1660–1745) was a Welsh aristocrat and Jacobite supporter.
Life
He was the son of William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis, by Lady Elizabeth, younger daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worces ...
and his wife Mary, he succeeded his father as
Marquess of Powis
Marquess of Powis was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1687 for William Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis. He had already succeeded his father as third Baron Powis in 1667 and had been created Earl of Powis in the Peerage of England ...
in 1745. He died three years later, and the Marquessate and its subsidiary titles became extinct. He left his fortune to his heir-male,
Lord Herbert of Chirbury; three years later, he married the Marquess' niece,
Barbara, who inherited the entailed estates of the family.
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1698 births
1748 deaths
William Herbert, 03rd Marquess of Powis
Dukes in the Jacobite peerage
Marquesses of Powis
Earls of Powis