Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, FRS (8 June 1800 – 10 December 1849), styled Lord Porchester from 1811 to 1833, was a British writer, traveller, nobleman, and politician.

Background and education

Herbert was born in London, the eldest son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon and Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland, daughter of John Dyke Acland of Pixton Park in Somerset. He was educated at

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and

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. He wrote the

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'' Don Pedro, King of Castile'' which was staged at

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in 1828 with William Macready and Ellen Kean.

Public life

In 1831, Porchester was elected to the

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for Wootton Bassett as a

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, a seat he held until the following year when the constituency was abolished by the

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. In 1833 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1841. It was during Carnarvon's lifetime that the family seat of

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was redesigned and rebuilt by

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into a Victorian mansion.

Cricket

Herbert played

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in 1822 when he was recorded in one match, totalling 1 run with a highest score of 1 and holding 2 catches.

Marriage and issue

In 1830, Lord Carnarvon married Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard (died 1876), eldest daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard (younger brother of the 12th Duke of Norfolk), by whom he had three sons and three daughters: * Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831–1890), a prominent

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politician. * Lady Eveline Alicia Juliana Howard Herbert (21 December 1834 – 30 September 1906), who married Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth. Her memorial stained-glass window survives in Brushford Church in Somerset, near her father's mansion at Pixton Park. *The Hon. Alan Percy Harty Molyneux Howard Herbert (21 November 1836 – 8 March 1907), a physician who was awarded the

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by the French government in 1871 for his service as a doctor during the siege of Paris in the

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, and remained there as the physician in charge of the Hertford Hospital until 1901. He inherited the estate of Tetton (a former Acland property) from his first cousin Edward Henry Charles Herbert (1837–1870), only son of Edward Charles Hugh Herbert (1802–1852) of Tetton, MP for Callington, second son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, husband of the heiress Kitty Acland. *Hon. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Howard Herbert (1838–1906), a writer, theorist, philosopher, and

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, an MP for

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1870–1874. *Lady Grace Herbert (born and died 10 December 1840), who survived only a few hours''Westminster, London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1813–1919'' *Lady Gwendolen Ondine Herbert (18 August 1842 – 23 October 1915), died unmarried''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995''

Death

He died at Pusey, Oxfordshire, in December 1849, aged 49. He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son,

Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the ...

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