Sir Thomas Herbert - High Petergate, York, UK
N 53° 57.744 W 001° 05.072
30U E 625663 N 5981037
This plaque indicates that Sit Thomas Herbert 'lived hereabouts' in High Petergate in York.
Waymark Code: WMGJVQ
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/13/2013
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The plaque, on the wall of a house in
High Petergate to the immediate west of York Minster tells us:
Sir Thomas
Herbert
1606 - 1682
lived hereabouts. A Parliamentarian, he
later
became a Groom of the Bedchamber
and a close friend of King Charles I.
He
stayed with him on the night before
his execution and attended him on
the
scaffold.
This website
tells us:
"Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart. was son
of Christopher Herbert, son of Thomas Herbert, Alderman, of York, descended by a
younger son from Sir Thomas Herbert of Colebrooke, in Monmouthshire, Kt. He was
born in Yorkshire, entered of Jesus College, Oxford, 1621, thence taken under
the patronage of his relation William Earl of Pembroke. Hence he was sent to
travel in Asia, and Africa; and, on his return, published A relation of some
years' Travels into Africa and the greater Asia, especially the territories of
the Persian Monarchy, and some parts of the Oriental Indies and isles adjacent.
Lond. 1634, 1638, &c. 1677, Fol. which is the fourth impression, wherein
many things are added, not in the former. In the Rebellion he adhered to the
cause of Parliament; and when the Parliament Commissioners in 1647 removed the
King's own servants from about his person at Holdenby, Mr. Thomas Herbert was
with Mr. James Harrington received as Groom of his Majesty's Bedchamber. In that
employment he continued to serve, with great fidelity and affection, till his
royal master was, to the horror of the world, brought to the
block.
Mr. Herbert was created a Baronet 3
July 1660, and died 1 March 1681, aged 76. He married 1st Lucia daughter of Sir
Walter Alexander, by whom he had Sir Henry, his successor, and other children.
His second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Gervase Cutler of Stainborough, in
Yorkshire, Kt."