Charles Herbert (Royal Navy officer)

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The Hon. Charles Herbert
Born 5 July 1774
Died 12 September 1808
Allegiance Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Service/branch Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg Royal Navy
Rank Post-captain
Commands held HMS Placentia (1791-1792)
HMS Amphitrite (1795 — 1797)
HMS Amelia (1797 — 1802)
HMS Uranie (1804 — 1805)
Battles/wars French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Other work Member of Parliament for Wilton from 1806 to 1807

The Honourable Charles Herbert (5 July 1774 12 September 1808) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1807.

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable is an honorific style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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Family

Charles Herbert was the second son of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon and Lady Elizabeth Alicia Maria Wyndham. He married The Honourable Bridget Augusta Byng, daughter of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington on 9 July 1806. [1]

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Herbert entered the navy at an early age and was Midshipman in 1790, Lieutenant in 1793 and Commander in 1794 when he was in command of the Resource in the West Indies. His father’s ‘never-ceasing importunities and remonstrances’ resulted in his promotion a year later in 1795 to the rank of post-captain, He enjoyed a successful series of frigate commands. He commanded the 28-gun sixth rate Amphitrite, [2] and the frigates Amelia and Uranie. Although moderately successful with prize money in both Amphitrite and Uranie, Amelia scored capture after capture during his years in command. He might have damaged his prospects early in 1802 by leaving his ship before peace was concluded, against Lord St. Vincent’s express wish. A year later, St. Vincent was prepared to overlook this ‘desertion’ and although he doubted if he could do anything for Herbert afloat, thought he might find him employment ashore. Not long afterwards, he was captain of a convoy to the West Indian fleet. [1]

HMS <i>Pomona</i> (1778)

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HMS <i>Amelia</i> (1796)

Proserpine was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French Navy launched in 1785 that HMS Dryad captured on 13 June 1796. The Admiralty commissioned Proserpine into the Royal Navy as the fifth rate, HMS Amelia. She spent 20 years in the Royal Navy, participating in numerous actions in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing a number of prizes, and serving on anti-smuggling and anti-slavery patrols. Her most notable action was her intense and bloody, but inconclusive, fight with Aréthuse in 1813. Amelia was broken up in December 1816.

French frigate <i>Uranie</i> (1788)

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Member of Parliament

Herbert was elected as Member of Parliament for Wilton in the General Election of 1806. In 1807 he was displaced by Lord Pembroke at the dissolution, in favour of his uncle and namesake Charles Herbert. [1]

Wilton was the name of a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1707, then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It had two Members of Parliament (MPs) until 1832, but from 1832 to 1885 only one member, as a result of the Reform Act 1832. In 1885 the borough was abolished, but the name of the constituency was then transferred to a new county constituency electing one Member from 1885 until 1918.

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Death

A year later Herbert was reported to have deserted his family to go as a ‘land volunteer’ to the Peninsula. On 12 Sept. 1808 he was drowned with a companion after their boat overturned in Gijon harbour. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "HERBERT, Hon. Charles (1774-1808)". History of Parliament Online (1790-1820). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  2. "No. 15339". The London Gazette . 21 February 1801. p. 222.


Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
The Viscount FitzWilliam
Ralph Sheldon
Member of Parliament for Wilton
1806 1807
With: Ralph Sheldon 18041807
Succeeded by
Viscount FitzHarris
Ralph Sheldon