Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1 May 1707 – 25 January 1758), styled The Honourable Herbert Windsor until 1738, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1734 until 1738 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Windsor.

Origins

He was the son and heir of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, by his wife Lady Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke.G. E. Cokayne ''et al.'', eds, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'' (2000 edition), volume X, page 573

Career

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bramber in 1734 but was instead elected unopposed for

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, a

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controlled by his family. He held the seat until 1738, when he succeeded his father and entered the

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.The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754'', ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Marriage and issue

He married Alice Clavering (d. November 1776), daughter and heiress of

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, a lady worth £60,000, by whom he had no male issue, but several daughters including: *Charlotte Jane Windsor (1746–1800) (Marchioness of Bute), principal co-heiress, who married

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(then 4th Earl of Bute), who in 1776 was created Baron Cardiff in recognition of the vast estates in South

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which he had inherited by his marriage. In 1776 the Mountjoy and Windsor titles held by his wife's family were revived when John Stuart was made Viscount Mountjoy, Earl of Windsor and

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. * Alice Elizabeth Windsor (1749–1772), married Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp, eldest son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford. Father and son later held the title

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Death and succession

He died in January 1758, aged 54. As he had no sons, his titles became extinct.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount 1707 births 1758 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies British MPs 1734–1741