Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury

Richard Herbert (c. 1557-buried 15 October 1596), Lord of Cherbury (or Chirbury) in Shropshire, and of Montgomery Castle, was an English Justice of the Peace and Parliamentarian.

Richard was the eldest son of Edward Herbert (died 1593) through whom he was a member of a collateral branch of the family of the Earls of Pembroke.

[3] By 1593 the family had moved to Black Hall, a large, low house in a valley overlooked by Montgomery Castle.

[1] After his death in 1596 while his wife was pregnant with their tenth child, Richard Herbert was buried on 15 October in the parish church of Saint Nicholas, Montgomery.

Richard's heraldic symbols and his armour are included but his wife's heraldry and her dress are also are on prominent display.