Biography of Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery 1656-1733

Before 1641 [his father] Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery (age 19) and Penelope Naunton (age 20) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery (age 56) and [his grandmother] Susan Vere Countess Montgomery.

Before 1650 [his father] Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery (age 28) and [his mother] Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery. He the son of [his grandfather] Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery (age 65) and [his grandmother] Susan Vere Countess Montgomery.

Around 1656 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery was born to Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery (age 35) and Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 35).

Around 1668 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 12) educated at Tonbridge School, Kent.

On 11th December 1669 [his father] Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery (age 48) died. His son [his half-brother] William (age 28) succeeded 6th Earl Pembroke, 3rd Earl Montgomery.

Around 1676 John Greenhill (age 32). Portrait of Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 20).

On 28th February 1678 [his mother] Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 57) died.

On 28th August 1683 [his brother] Philip "Infamous Earl" Herbert 7th Earl Pembroke 4th Earl Montgomery (age 31) died. He was buried at Salisbury Cathedral [Map]. His brother Thomas (age 27) succeeded 8th Earl Pembroke, 5th Earl Montgomery.

In 1684 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 28) and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery. He the son of Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery and Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd May 1687. I dined with Mynheer Diskvelts, the Holland Ambassador, a prudent and worthy person. There dined Lord Middleton (age 37), principal Secretary of State, Lord Pembroke (age 31), Lord Lumley (age 37), Lord Preston, Colonel Fitzpatrick, and Sir John Chardin (age 43). After dinner, the Ambassador discoursed of and deplored the stupid folly of our politics, in suffering the French to take Luxemburg, it being a place of the most concern to have been defended, for the interest not only of the Netherlands, but of England.

In 1689 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 33) was appointed President of the Royal Society.

In 1690 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 34) was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

On 29th January 1693 [his son] Henry Herbert 6th Earl Montgomery 9th Earl Pembroke was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 37) and [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

Around 1695 [his son] Thomas Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 39) and [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

Around 1696 [his son] William Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 40) and [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

John Evelyn's Diary. 11th June 1696. Dined at Lord Pembroke's (age 40), Lord Privy Seal, a very worthy gentleman. He showed me divers rare pictures of very many of the old and best masters, especially one of M. Angelo of a man gathering fruit to give to a woman, and a large book of the best drawings of the old masters. Sir John Fenwick (age 51), one of the conspirators, was taken. Great subscriptions in Scotland to their East India Company. Want of current money to carry on the smallest concerns, even for daily provisions in the markets. Guineas lowered to twenty-two shillings, and great sums daily transported to Holland, where it yields more, with other treasure sent to pay the armies, and nothing considerable coined of the new and now only current stamp, cause such a scarcity that tumults are every day feared, nobody paying or receiving money; so imprudent was the late Parliament to condemn the old though clipped and corrupted, till they had provided supplies. To this add the fraud of the bankers and goldsmiths, who having gotten immense riches by extortion, keep up their treasure in expectation of enhancing its icon. Duncombe, not long since a mean goldsmith, having made a purchase of the late Duke of Buckingham's estate at nearly £90,000, and reputed to have nearly as much in cash. Banks and lotteries every day set up.

Before 21st June 1698 John Arundell 2nd Baron Arundel of Trerice (age 49) and [his future wife] Barbara Slingsby Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 30) were married. She by marriage Baroness Arundel Trerice in Cornwall.

In 1699 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 43) was appointed Lord Privy Seal.

In 1700 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 44) was appointed 507th Knight of the Garter by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 49).

On or after 21st March 1704, the date of the licence, [his son-in-law] Nicholas Morice 2nd Baronet (age 23) and [his daughter] Catherine Herbert Lady Morice were married at St James' Church, Piccadilly. She by marriage Lady Morice of Werrington in Devon. They has one sons and two daughters. She the daughter of Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 48) and [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

John Evelyn's Diary. 11th March 1705. An exceedingly dry season. Great loss by fire, burning the outhouses and famous stable of the Earl of Nottingham (age 57), at Burleigh [Rutlandshire], full of rich goods and furniture, by the carelessness of a servant. A little before, the same happened at Lord Pembroke's (age 49), at Wilton. The old Countess of Northumberland (age 82), Dowager of Algernon Percy, Admiral of the fleet to King Charles I., died in the 83d year of her age. She was sister to the Earl of Suffolk, and left a great estate, her jointure to descend to the Duke of Somerset (age 42).

Around 1706 [his son] Nicholas Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 50) and [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery at Werrington, Devon.

On 17th November 1706 [his wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery died.

In 1708 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 52) and Barbara Slingsby Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 40) were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery. He the son of Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery and Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

On or before 18th September 1716 [his daughter] Catherine Herbert Lady Morice died. She was buried at Werrington, Devon on 18th September 1716.

On 1st August 1721 [his wife] Barbara Slingsby Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 53) died.

After 1st August 1721 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 65) and Mary Howe Countess Pembroke and Montgomery were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke, Countess Montgomery. He the son of Philip Herbert 5th Earl Pembroke 2nd Earl Montgomery and Catherine Villiers Countess Pembroke and Montgomery. They were fourth cousin twice removed.

On 28th March 1727 Isaac Newton (deceased) was buried in Scientist's Corner, Westminster Abbey [Map]; the first scientist to be buried there. The service was performed by the Bishop of Rochester (age 74).

Before the funeral his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, Cheyneygates, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His coffin was followed by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society.

The Pall Bearers were the Lord Chancellor Peter King 1st Baron King (age 58), James Graham 1st Duke Montrose (age 44), Robert Ker 2nd Duke Roxburghe (age 18), Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 71), Talbot Yelverton 1st Earl of Sussex (age 36) and Thomas Parker 1st Earl Macclesfield (age 60).

The Chief Mourner was Michael Newton 4th Baronet (age 32); his third cousin.

Voltaire observed, "He was buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.".

He was buried at Scientist's Corner, Westminster Abbey [Map] on 28th March 1727.; the first scientist to be buried there. The inscription on his John Michael Rysbrack (age 32) monument reads "Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25th December 1642, and died on 20th March 1726."

On 20th May 1732 [his son-in-law] William Neville 1st Baron Abergavenny (age 37) and [his daughter] Rebecca Herbert Baroness Abergavenny were married. She by marriage Baroness Abergavenny. She the daughter of Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 76) and [his former wife] Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

On 22nd January 1733 Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery (age 77) died. His son [his son] Henry (age 39) succeeded 6th Earl Montgomery, 9th Earl Pembroke.

In November 1735 John Mordaunt (age 26) and [his former wife] Mary Howe Countess Pembroke and Montgomery were married. They were second cousin once removed.

On 12th September 1749 [his former wife] Mary Howe Countess Pembroke and Montgomery died.

[his daughter] Elizabeth Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his son] John Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his daughter] Margaret Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his daughter] Catherine Herbert Lady Morice was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his daughter] Anne Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his son] Charles Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his son] Robert Sawyer Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his daughter] Rebecca Herbert Baroness Abergavenny was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Margaret Sawyer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.

[his daughter] Barbara Herbert was born to Thomas Herbert 8th Earl Pembroke 5th Earl Montgomery and Barbara Slingsby Countess Pembroke and Montgomery.