Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

The Right Honourable The Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke
Born	1621
Died	11 December 1669
Nationality	English
Title	5th Earl of Pembroke
Spouses	Penelope Naunton Catherine Villiers
Children	4 (including William, 6th Earl, Philip, 7th Earl, and Thomas, 8th Earl)
Parent(s)	Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke Susan de Vere

Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 11 December 1669), was an English nobleman and politician.

He was the second son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife Susan de Vere.^[1] In February 1632 he appeared with his elder brother Charles in the masque Tempe Restored at Whitehall Palace.^[2] Two months later the two boys matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford.^[3] In the summer of 1635 they embarked on a Continental tour. Charles contracted smallpox and died in Florence in early January 1636. As a result of his death Philip became the heir to their father's titles.^[4]

In 1639 he became a captain in the Household Volunteer Regiment of Horse Guards.^[5] He was MP for Wiltshire in the Short Parliament of 1640. In the Long Parliament he sat initially for Glamorgan 1640–1649 and then Berkshire.^[6] Philip succeeded his father as earl in 1650^[1] and served as a Councillor of State 1651-2.^[6][5]

At the coronation of Charles II he was Bearer of the Golden Spurs and Lord Cupbearer.^[5]

After the Restoration he was active in the Council for Trade, Fishery Corporation and the Royal Africa Company.^[6] He had been raised in a family sympathetic to Puritanism^[7] and himself became a Quaker^[8] According to Pepys, he had an idiosyncratic interpretation of the doctrine of Original Sin.^[6]

He died 11 December 1669 and was buried with no memorial in Salisbury cathedral.^[9][10]

In 1639 he married Penelope Naunton (1620-1647),^[9] widow of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning, and daughter of Sir Robert Naunton by his second wife, Penelope Perrot, widow of the astronomer Sir William Lower, and daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot and Dorothy Devereux.^[11][12][13]

• William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke

In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers (d. 1678)^[10], daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet and his 3rd wife Rebecca, daughter of Robert Roper of Heanor, Derbyshire.^[9]

• Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
• Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
• Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett

On her death Catherine was also buried at Salisbury.^[10]

• Roche, J.J. (2004). "Lower, Sir William (c.1570–1615)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39195. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 1631-2, ed. E. Kerridge (Wiltshire Record Society vol. 9, 1953)