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Lt.-Gen. Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 6th Earl of Montgomery PC FRS (29 January 1693 [1] – 9 January 1749 [2]) was an English peer and courtier. He was the heir and eldest son of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and his first wife Margaret Sawyer.
Artist and architect: Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (British, ca. 1689/93–1751) Date: ca. 1730. Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash. Dimensions: sheet: 14 3/4 x 9 1/16 in. (37.5 x 23 cm) Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925. Accession Number: 25.62.63r(a)
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, was born in 1693, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1733. From his skill in architecture he was known as "the architect earl," and Marble Hill and the Lodge in Richmond Park remain as "incontestable proofs of Lord Pembroke's taste."
The replication of the Palladian Bridge (1737) at Wilton , Wiltshire , designed by Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, and his protégé, Roger Morris, can arguably be counted among the most intriguing (and unique) phenomena in the history of British garden
Herbert, Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke. (c. 1693—1751) Quick Reference. ( c. 1693–1751). Owner of Wilton House, Wilts., he studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, in the time of Aldrich, and was active in promoting the Palladianism that Inigo Jones had introduced, and which was being revived in Herbert's lifetime under the aegis of Burlington.
Marble Hill was built by Roger Morris and Henry, Lord Herbert who became 9th Earl of Pembroke in 1733 on the death of his father, the 8th Earl. While inheriting his father’s interest in the arts, he made architecture his own special interest and was known as the “Architect Earl.”
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Herbert, Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke (c.1693–1751). Source for information on Herbert, Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture dictionary.
