Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (c.1668 – 1 August 1721) was a British court official and noble, the second wife of

Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke ( 165622 January 1733), styled The Honourable Thomas Herbert until 1683, was a British statesman who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1692 to 1699. Background Herbert was the third son of Philip Herbert, 5 ...

. She became

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for Princess Caroline of the Royal

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Biography

The daughter of Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Dorothy Cradock. Barbara had two brothers: Sir Henry Slingsby, 3rd Baronet (c.1660-1691), and Sir Thomas Slingsby, 4th Baronet (c.1668-1726) She was married three times in all. Her first marriage was to Sir Richard Mauleverer, 4th Baronet, of Allerton Mauleverer, who died in 1689. On 14 February 1692/93, she married her second husband,

John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice (1649 – 21 June 1698) of Trerice, Cornwall, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1666 and 1687 when he inherited his pee ...

(1649–1698), of

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, Cornwall, who died in 1698.Pedigree of ''Arundell of Trerice'', Vivian, J.L., ed. (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.1

As Lady Arundell, she had a son, Richard Arundell (died 1758), Hon. Richard Arundell (1698-1759), who became MP for

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, Clerk of the Pipe, Surveyor of the Works and Master of the Mint. She married the Earl of Pembroke on 21 September 1708, in London. The earl and countess had one daughter, Lady Barbara Herbert (died 27 December 1752), who on 3 October 1730 married William Dudley North. In 1718, the countess became a

to the Princess of Wales,

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, retaining the position until her own death three years later.

References

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