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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor

Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, portrait by Edward Travanyon Haynes. Arms: Windsor quartering Herbert, with inescutcheon of pretence of Clavering (Quarterly or and gules, overall a bend sable)
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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1 May 1707 – 25 January 1758), styled The Honourable Herbert Windsor until 1738, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1738 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Windsor.

Origins

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He was the son and heir of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, by his wife Lady Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke.[1]

Career

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He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bramber in 1734 but was instead elected unopposed for Cardiff, a rotten borough controlled by his family. He held the seat until 1738, when he succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords.[2]

Marriage and issue

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He married Alice Clavering (d. November 1776), daughter and heiress of Sir John Clavering, 3rd Baronet, a lady worth £60,000,[2] by whom he had no male issue, but several daughters including:

Death and succession

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He died in January 1758, aged 54. As he had no sons, his titles became extinct.

References

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  1. ^ G. E. Cokayne et al., eds, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (2000 edition), volume X, page 573
  2. ^ a b The History of Parliament: WINDSOR, Hon. Herbert (1707-58). Originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
  3. ^ Sir William Llewelyn Davies (1959). "BUTE, marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
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