Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis
Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis (1598 – 19 January 1667), known as Sir Percy Herbert, Bt, between 1622 and 1655, was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622 and later inherited a peerage.
Herbert was the son of William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis, and his wife Eleanor Percy (d. 1650).
He was named after the surname of his maternal grandfather Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and belonged to a recusant (i. e. Roman Catholic) branch of the Herbert family living in Powis Castle.
In 1621 Herbert was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury at a by-election after the previously elected member was expelled.
He was knighted on 7 November 1622, and was created a baronet on 16 November 1622.
Herbert inherited the title Baron Powis on the death of his father in 1655.
Blanche Milborne
Blanche Milborne, Lady Herbert of Troy was the Lady Mistress in charge of the upbringing of Queen Elizabeth I, Edward VI and also of Queen Mary when she lived with the younger Tudor children.
She was twice married, and widowed; first to James Whitney then Sir William Herbert of Troy Parva, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and one of his mistresses.
She had five children.
Blanche Milborne died c. 1557 before Queen Elizabeth I ’s accession.
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570)
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, 1st Baron Herbert of Cardiff( c. 150117 March 1570) was a Tudor period nobleman, politician, and courtier.
Herbert was the son of Sir Richard Herbert and Margaret Cradock.
His father was an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke of the eighth creation( 1468) by his mistress, Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt.
Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis
Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis( 24 June 1735 – 12 March 1786), was the wife of General Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, and the mother of George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis.
Barbara's father, Lord Edward Herbert, was a younger son of William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis; he married Lady Henrietta Waldegrave, but died only a few months after the wedding, in 1734.
Barbara was born three months after her father's death, and was fifteen when she married Henry Herbert on 30 March 1751; Henry was in his late forties.
Henry was descended from Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury, and was created Earl of Powis in 1748, following the death without heirs of William Herbert, 3rd Marquess of Powis.
The couple had two children:
In 1771, shortly before the earl's death, the family seat at Oakly Park was sold to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, and they moved permanently to Powis Castle.
A portrait of Barbara by an unknown artist, dated to approximately 1750, is held at Powis Castle, in the care of the National Trust.
Dennis Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford
Dennis Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford( 25 February 1869 – 10 December 1947), was a British Conservative politician.
Rafael Fortún
Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón( born August 5, 1919 in Camagüey – died June 22, 1982 in Camagüey) was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.
His major sporting achievement was winning the 100 and 200 m double at the 1951 Pan American Games, beating American sprinter Art Bragg in both events.
Fortun was ranked by the experts of Track and Field News as 10th in the world in 1950 at 100 m and 5th in 1951.
Fortun was a very successful competitor at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
He won the 100 m 3 times in row( 1946, 1950 and 1954)- the first competitor to achieve such a feat.
He also won the 200 m once( in 1946) and was second once( in 1950).
Fortun came from a very humble background in the Cuban province of Camaguey.
Originally he was a high jumper but moved the sprints when he realised his talent for them.
He also played baseball, a traditional sporting route out of poverty in Cuba at the time.
Fortun had to train barefoot until a gift of sporting shoes was made by a local priest.
His athletic talent was not appreciated by the authorities in Cuba at the time.
He had to seek gifts of money to enable him to attend the Olympic Games of 1948 and 1952 and was fired from his job at the Ministry of Public Affairs for attending the 1951 Pan American Games.
Fortun died of cancer in 1982.
Today his achievements are appreciated more in Cuba, his memory is honoured, for example, in an athletics competition in his home province of Camaguey: the Rafael Fortun Memorial competition in Camaguey City.
William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis
William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis, PC( 16262 June 1696) was an English nobleman, best remembered for his suffering during the Popish Plot.
He was the only son of Percy, 2nd Baron Powis and Elizabeth Craven, daughter of Sir William Craven.
He succeeded his father, the 2nd Baron Powis, as 3rd Baron Powis in 1667, and was created Earl of Powis in 1674 by King Charles II and Viscount Montgomery, of the Town of Montgomery, and Marquess of Powis in 1687 by King James II, having been appointed to the Privy Council in 1686.
He married in July 1654, Lady Elizabeth Somerset( c. 1633 – 1691), daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester( died 1667), by whom he had six children, a son and heir and six daughters, one of whom, Winifred, married William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, who was condemned to death for high treason for participating in the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Lady Nithsdale famously organised her husband's escape from the Tower of London.
A cousin of the 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Powis was, together with his wife, one of the leaders of the Roman Catholic party.
He was one of the" Five Catholic Lords" falsely accused by Titus Oates in the Popish Plot of conspiring to kill the King and as a result spent six years in the Tower of London awaiting trial; his wife's desperate efforts to free him led her to fabricate the" Meal- tub Plot" for which she narrowly escaped being convicted for treason herself.
Powis was finally freed in 1684.
He remained faithful to the deposed King James after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
It was he who spirited away Queen Mary and the infant James, Prince of Wales, and took them into their French exile.
As a reward, he was created" Duke of Powis" and" Marquess of Montgomery" in the Jacobite Peerage by King James.
In 1690, Powis landed in Ireland with James, where he acted as one of his principal advisers.
James appointed him to his Irish Privy Council and made him Lord Chamberlain.
He remained in Ireland until the king's flight back to France after the Battle of the Boyne, and settled again at the exiled Jacobite Court at St Germain.
Powis was a prominent figure in the Jacobite Court, serving as Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain of the household, but he seems to have been rather marginal in the king's counsels.
His wife continued as Principal Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary of Modena and Royal Governess to James, Prince of Wales until her death on 11 March 1691.
James made Powis a Knight of the Garter in April 1692.
Nevertheless, others exercised more influence at Court as Powis struggled to maintain the dignity of a royal household on an insufficient income.
Having lost estates valued at £ 10,000 a year, he had given up more than most for the Jacobite cause.
He died, aged about seventy, on 2 June 1696, after a riding accident in St Germain, and was buried there the next day.
He was succeeded by his only son William Herbert, Viscount Montgomery( Jacobite Marquess of Montgomery), as second Marquess of Powis and( Jacobite second Duke of Powis)( 1665 – 1745), who was later jailed in the Tower as a Jacobite and fought a long battle in the courts to retain some of his property, resulting in the restoration of his family's estates.
He was relieved of the attainder placed on his father and was restored to the forfeited peerages in the rank of marquess in 1722.
William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis
William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis
( c. 1573 – 7 March 1655) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1629.
Herbert was born in Powis Castle, the son of Sir Edward Herbert( c. 1542 – 23 March 1595) and his wife Mary Stanley, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley, Under- Treasurer of the Royal Mint.
His paternal grandparents were William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Parr, sister of Queen Catherine Parr.
He was a nephew of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
Herbert was High Steward to Elizabeth I of England.
In 1597, he was elected Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire.
He served as Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire from 1602 to 1641.
Upon the coronation of James I in 1603, Herbert was made a Knight of the Bath.
In 1604, he was elected MP for Montgomeryshire again.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1613.
In 1614, he was re-elected MP for Montgomeryshire and was re-elected in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628.
He was created Baron Powis( a new creation) of Powis Castle on 2 April 1629.
Before 1600, Lord Powis married Lady Eleanor Percy, third daughter of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and his wife, Hon. Katherine Neville.
They had several children including:
He was succeeded by his son Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis.
Herbert was buried at St. Mary's Church in Hendon, Middlesex, London.
Herbert is a candidate for" Mr WH", the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, PC (16 September 1810 – 2 August 1861) was a British statesman and a close ally and confidant of Florence Nightingale.
Richard Herbert (died 1510)
Sir Richard Herbert Kt( died 1510) of Ewyas, Herefordshire, was an English knight, gentleman, landowner, and courtier.
He was an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Maud, a daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt( Gwynn).
Richard had a full brother named George.
Richard Herbert of Ewyas should not be confused with his uncle, Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, a brother of his father, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

Question: Did William Herbert, 1St Baron Powis and Rafael Fortún share the same nationality?
Answer: no