Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury
…War, and a peer whose membership of the House of Lords was curtailed by its abolition in 1649. Herbert, born about 1604, was the elder son of the poet Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, of Montgomery Castle, and of Mary, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Herbert (d. 1593), both members of a collateral branch of the family of the…