Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon

Educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge,[1] he inherited Highclere Castle from his uncle the Honourable Robert Sawyer Herbert in 1769.

The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Porchester, of Highclere in the County of Southampton.

[3] He later served as Master of the Horse from 1806[4] to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1806.

[6] On 15 July 1771 Lord Carnarvon married Lady Elizabeth Alicia Maria Wyndham (d. 1826)[7] a daughter of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, by whom he had five sons and one daughter: Carnarvon died in June 1811, aged 69.

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Arms of 1st Earl of Carnarvon, four quarters (Herbert, Talbot, de Vere, Sawyer of Highclere: Azure, a fess chequy sable and or between three sea-pies (proper?) ) impaling Wyndham. Brushford Church, Somerset, above the effigy of his great-great grandson Hon. Aubrey Herbert (1880-1923), of Pixton Park , Somerset, second son of the 4th Earl