Herbert Mackworth

Herbert Mackworth (7 September 1687 – 20 August 1765) was a Welsh landowner, coal owner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1739 to 1765.

On his father's death in 1727 he inherited the Gnoll estate and substantial coal mining and copper smelting interests in the Neath valley.

[2] Mackworth was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for Cardiff Boroughs on his own and the Windsor interest at a by-election on 16 February 1739.

Mackworth's daughter Frances married firstly Alexander, 5th Lord Falconer of Halkerton, secondly Anthony Browne, 7th Viscount Montagu, and thirdly Henry Slaughter M.D., all three weddings taking place at St George's, Hanover Square.

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