Herbert was the son of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of Revels to Charles I and Charles II.
He inherited the manor of Ribbesford (near Bewdley) on the death of his father.
Like his father he served as Member of Parliament for Bewdley, from 1677 to 1679, for Worcester in Charles II's last Parliament and again for Bewdley from 1689 to 1694.
In 1697 he was Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Worcestershire Militia.
[1] He was involved in the passage of the Act for better Securing the Duties of East India Goods, which extended the monopoly of the London-based East India Company across Scotland thus encompassing the whole of the new Kingdom of Great Britain.