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 TORRIXGTOX. 409 EH. 1689, /. Arthur Herbert, 2d a.(») of Sir Edward Herbert, to Attorney Gen. to Charles I., L. Keeper of the Great Seal. 1653-54 171G. tig Margaret, da. of .Sir Thomas Smith, M.jster of the Requests. was b. 1647-49: was Lieut, in the Navy, 1667 ; Hear Admiral before 1070, ami eventually, 16S9-90, Bear Admiral of the lied; a Lord of the Admiralty, 1684-87 ; M.P. for Dover, 16S5-JC, and for Plymouth, 1 ! M-u-l.-r of the Robes to James H., 10S5-S7; Col. of the 15 th Foot, 1686-87, being dismissed frutq ortice on refusing to vote for the repeal of the test act. He. us " Vice Admiral Herbert." was. in 1688, one of those " in amis'' for the cause of the Prince of Orange.f 1 ') being in command as •• Lieut.-General Admiral " of the fleet, which brought that Prince over in Out. 1688 to England : P.C. 10S9-P2; first Lord of the Admiralty, 1US9-90 ; Master of the Trinity House, 16S9 ; had a slight skirmish with the French licet (of greatly superior force', near I'.antrv bay, 1 May 16S9 (<■•) and was cr. 29 May lo$9, BAKON HERBERT OF TO It BAY and EARL Of TORRING- TON both co. Devon, with a tpee. rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his br. Charles Herbert, in like manner. He was Vice Admiral of England, 1689-90, being Coin.-in-Chief of the Meet at the defeat, 30 June 1690, of the English and Dutch off Beachey head, when ordered, tho inferior in number, to engage the French, under Toiirville; for this failure he was imprisoned iu the Tower ; tried by court martial, and tho' (justly) acquitted, never fcgutt ''came into play." v *) He was, however, in 1695 made a Cominissr. of Greenwich hospital. He m. lirstly (Lie. Fac. 2 Nov. 1072, being then of Weybridge, co. Surrey, 25, Bach. 1, Anne Pbkasast, of Westminster, widow, da. of Gorge Hadlky, of Southgate, co. Slid i., Cit. and Grocer of London, by Anne, da. of Gilbert. Hauhison, Chamberlain of London. They appear to have been separated as " the King commanded " him, t> March lu'85, " to take his wife agaiu."(°) lie M. secondly, 1 Aug. 1704, Anne. Dow. Bahonbss Chew of Stene, da. and coheir of Sir William Altutvx, 2d Bart, by Anne, da. and coheir of Sir Robert Crane, Bart. He (/. s.p. 14 and was bur. 22 April 1716. in Westm. Abbey, aged 67,'. f ) when all his honours became extinct. Will dat. 30 March, and nr. 19 April 1716. («) His widow d . 2 April 1719. Will pr. April 1719. (*) Of his two brothers (1) Charles Herbert, the eldest, d. unm. being slain at the battle of Aglirim in 1691, lighting for William HI., while (2) Edward, the yst. was Ch. Justice of the King's Bench in 1685 to James II., by whom, after his dethrone- ment, he was cr. Karl of Portland. { b ) See vol. i, p. '28, note " b," sub " Abingdon " for a list of them. ( c ) " This disproportion of the two fleets made Herbert's success impossible . . . there is, however, no apparent reason for the general satisfaction expressed at the result. The King himself visited the fleet at Portsmouth on 15 June and soon after cr. Herbert, Karl of Torriugton. knighted Captains Ashby and Shovell, and ordered a gratuity to the seamen for their brave behaviour. The engagement must have been made a pretext for rewarding the services rendered to the Revolution and for con- ciliating the navy." [Nat. Biotjr.] Lord Hervey goes so far as to say that he received the honour of peerage " us a reward for an action, for which he ought to have lost his head." ( d ) See Macky's " Characters" j Written when he was " a very fat man, about 50 years old." He was strongly opposed by Russell. Earl of Orford (whose influence was considerable), and he was generally unpopular. He is very unfavourably spoken of by Burnet, and not favourable by Fepys, but "his views on naval strategy were much in advance of his age and. . . . warrant our assigning him a high place in the list of English Admirals." {Nat. Bioyr.] His portrait (full bottomed wig) after J. Riley " is engraved iu "Doyle." (") Letter of that date from Sir Ch. Lyttelton to Viscount Hatton. (0 Funeral book, but, if his age in his mar. lie. was correct, he would have been 69. (S) He leaves all his lands to Henry (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln, for life, with rem. to his issue in tail male, rem. to Greenwich Hospital. The only relation he mentions in his will is his " Sister Agar." to whom he leaves an annuity of £100, leaving also one of £200 to « Mr. Henry Herbert." See vol. v, p. 430, being " addenda to p. 96, sub " Lincoln."