John Alexander Herbert

“ He married, secondly, about July 1718, Catherine, daughter (and coheiress in 1739) of Richard Graham, viscount Preston [q. v.] ; she survived him, without children, dying in 1757 (Douglas, Peerage of Scotland, ed. Wood, ii. 375) . After his death his eldest son, Henry Francis, was commonly called Lord Widdrington, and, dying at Turnham Green in 1774, was confused with his father in obituaries (see Gent. Mag. 1774, p. 446; Ann. Reg. 1774, p. 196) . ”

“ He pleaded guilty at his trial, but appealed for mercy on the ground that ‘as he was the last who took up arms, so he was the first who procured a meeting of the chief persons among them, in order to lay them down.’ He was sentenced to death, but was reprieved, and was admitted on 22 Nov. ”

“ Malone, 1790, iv. 436) . 2. 'Oratio Funebris' on John Rainolds, delivered on 25 May 1607; published in the same volume with Rainolds's 'Orationes Duodecim,' London, 1619, and separately in 1627; it is included in Fuller's 'Abel Redevivus,' London, 1651, p. 492. 3. 'Oratio Funebris' on Sir Thomas Bodley, Oxford, 1613; included by Bates in 'Vitæ Selectorum aliquot Virorum,' London, 1681, p. 416. 4. 'A Threefold Help to Political Observations, contained in three Discourses,' London, 1655: the discourses are (1) 'Of the Thirteen Cantons of the Helvetical League,' written about 1625 ”

“ Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 471; but see G. E. C [ockayne] , Complete Peerage, viii. 135) ; on the 14th he was in Newcastle apparently raising forces (Hist. MSS. Comm. 5th Rep. App. p. 37) . In an army list of 1642 he appears as major of Sir Lewis Dives's regiment (Masson, Life of Milton, ii. 442) . ”

“ Some of these, with a few others, are printed in Johnson's ‘Fairfax Correspondence’ (i. 367) , Bell's ‘Memorials of the Civil War’ (see refs. in index) , and Neill's ‘The Fairfaxes of England and America’ (p. 13) . A full list of his extant speeches is given by Caine (introd. to Anal. Ebor. p. xxx) . ”

“ App. ii. 253) . He represented York in the parliament of 1654, and was re-elected in 1656, but preferred instead to sit for Northumberland, and was chosen as speaker on 17 Sept. 1656 (Parl. Hist. iii. 1432, 1484; Commons' Journals, 1 Oct. 1656) . He was so ill in the following January that he had to be carried into the house in a sedan-chair, and the house at first adjourned for some days, and afterwards appointed Whitelocke to take the chair during his absence, 27 Jan. ”

“ In March 1612 his leave of absence from Merton College was extended for three years (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1611-18, p. 125) ; but in the following November he came to England for a few months, during which he pronounced a funeral oration on Sir Thomas Bodley [q. v.] ”