Major-General The Hon. William Herbert (c. 1696 – 31 March 1757) was a

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officer and politician. He was the fifth son of

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by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Sawyer of

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Biography

Herbert entered the Army on 1 May 1722Richard Cannon, ''Historical Record of the Fourteenth, or the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Foot'' (1845
p. 95
with a commission as lieutenant in the 1st Troop of Life Guards.Sir Lewis Namier
HERBERT, Hon. William (c.1696-1757).
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1754-1790'' (1964).Eveline Cruickshanks
HERBERT, Hon. William (c.1696-1757).
in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754'' (1970). In 1734 he was elected to Parliament for his family's seat of Wilton: he would represent the constituency for the rest of his life, supporting the Government. On 15 December 1738 he was promoted to captain in the

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, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and in 1740 he was made a

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to the King and paymaster to the garrison at Gibraltar, offices he would hold until his death. In 1745 Herbert was appointed aide-de-camp to the King, with

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as a colonel, and in February 1747 he was made colonel of the 6th Regiment of Marines. On 1 December 1747 he transferred to the colonelcy of the

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and on 27 January 1753 to that of the

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. He was promoted major-general in 1755. William Herbert was married before 1741 to Catherine Elizabeth Tewes, of

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. They had five children (three sons and two daughters), including

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References

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