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Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 11 December 1669), was an English nobleman and politician.


Life

He was the second son of
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, (10 October 158423 January 1650) was an English courtier, nobleman, and politician active during the reigns of James I of England, James I and Charles I of England, Charles I. ...
, and his first wife Susan de Vere. In February 1632 he appeared with his elder brother Charles in the
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. Two months later the two boys matriculated at
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. In the summer of 1635 they embarked on a Continental tour. Charles contracted smallpox and died in Florence in early January 1636. As a result of his death Philip became the heir to their father's titles. In 1639 he became a captain in the Household Volunteer Regiment of Horse Guards. He was MP for
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in the
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of 1640. In the
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he sat initially for
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1640–1649 and then
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. Philip succeeded his father as earl in 1650 and served as a Councillor of State 1651-2. At the coronation of Charles II he was Bearer of the Golden Spurs and Lord Cupbearer. After the Restoration he was active in the Council for Trade, Fishery Corporation and the Royal Africa Company. He had been raised in a family sympathetic to
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and himself became a Quaker According to Pepys, he had an idiosyncratic interpretation of the doctrine of
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. He died 11 December 1669 and was buried with no memorial in Salisbury cathedral.


Family

In 1639 he married Penelope Naunton (1620–1647), widow of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning, and daughter of Sir Robert Naunton by his second wife, Penelope Perrot, widow of the astronomer Sir William Lower, and daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot and Dorothy Devereux.Trefenty, Dyfed Archaeological Trust
Retrieved 19 August 2013.
* William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers (d. 1678), daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet and his 3rd wife Rebecca, daughter of Robert Roper of
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, Derbyshire. * Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke *
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 ...
*Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett On her death Catherine was also buried at Salisbury.


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References

* ''Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 1631-2'', ed. E. Kerridge ( Wiltshire Record Society vol. 9, 1953) , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of 1621 births 1669 deaths Herbert family Chancellors of the University of Oxford 5
Philip Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...
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