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{{short description|British politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = The Earl of Carnarvon
| honorific-prefix = [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]]<br />[[The Right Honourable]]
| honorific-suffix = [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]]
| image = 2ndEarlOfCarnarvon.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = The Earl of Carnarvon.
| birth_date = 3 June 1772
| birth_place = [[Hill Street, London|Hill Street]], London, [[England]]
| death_date = {{death-date and age|16 April 1833|3 June 1772}}
| death_place = [[Grosvenor Square]], [[London]], [[England]]
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| party = [[Whig (British political party)|Whig]]
| alma_mater =
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Kitty Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon|Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland]] |1796|1813|end=d}}
| children = 5
| parents = [[Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon]]<br />[[Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon|Lady Elizabeth Alicia Maria Wyndham]]
}}
[[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] '''Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon''' [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]], [[Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]] (3 June 1772 – 16 April 1833),<ref name = "Doyle"/> styled '''The Honourable Henry Herbert''' from 1780 to 1793 and '''Lord Porchester''' from 1793 to 1811, was a British peer, nobleman, and [[Whig (British political party)|Whig]] politician.
==Background and education==
Born in [[Hill Street, London|Hill Street]] in [[London]], Herbert was the oldest son of [[Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon]],<ref name = "Cokayne (1913), p. 47"/> and [[Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon|Lady Elizabeth Alicia Maria Wyndham]], the oldest daughter of [[Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont]].<ref name = "Burke (1832), p. 212">Burke (1832), p. 212</ref> He was baptised in [[St George's, Hanover Square]] on 22 June 1772.<ref name = "Cokayne (1913), p. 47"/> His younger brothers were the sailor [[Charles Herbert (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Herbert]] and the botanist [[William Herbert (botanist)|William Herbert]].<ref name = "Burke (1832), p. 212"/> Another brother, [[Algernon Herbert]] was an [[antiquary]].<ref name = "Burke (1832), p. 212"/> Herbert was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] until 1789.<ref name = "Cokayne (1913), p. 47"/>
==Career==
Herbert joined the [[Royal Wiltshire Militia]] as captain in 1790 and when the [[West Somerset Yeomanry]] was raised in 1794 became its major.<ref name = "Doyle">Doyle" (1886), p. 341</ref> He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel four years later and obtained colonelcy of the regiment in 1803.<ref name = "Doyle"/> Having been elected for Cricklade, Herbert entered the [[House of Commons of Great Britain|British House of Commons]] in 1794.<ref name = "Thorne (1986), p. 184">Thorne (1986), p. 184</ref> After the [[Act of Union 1801]] he represented the constituency then in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] until 1811, when he succeeded his father as earl.<ref name = "Thorne (1986), p. 184"/> During his time as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] he stirred an investigation into the failure of the [[Walcheren Campaign]] in 1809.<ref>Thorne (1986), p. 185</ref> Herbert was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of [[Somerset]] in 1803 and served as [[High steward (civic)|High Steward]] of [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]].<ref name = "Doyle"/> He was chosen a fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]] in 1814 and was vice-president of the [[Royal Horticultural Society]].<ref name = "Urban (1833), p. 463"/>
==Marriage and children==
[[File:HerbertArms WithAclandInescutcheon BrushfordChurch Somerset.xcf|thumb|Arms of 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, four-quarters (Herbert, Talbot, de Vere, Sawyer of Highclere: ''Azure, a fess chequy sable and or between three sea-pies (proper?)'') with inescutcheon of Acland of Pixton quartering Dyke of Pixton. Brushford Church, Somerset, above the effigy of his great grandson Hon. [[Aubrey Herbert]] (1880–1923), of [[Pixton Park]], Somerset, second son of the 4th Earl]]
On 26 April 1796, he married the heiress [[Kitty Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon|Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland]] (d.1813), at [[St George's Hanover Square]].<ref name = "Cokayne (1913), p. 47">Cokayne (1913), p. 47</ref> She was the only daughter and eventual heiress of Col. John Dyke Acland (1747–1778), son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (1722–1785) of Killerton, Devon, and Petherton Park in Somerset, who acquired [[Pixton Park]], [[Tetton, Kingston St Mary]], and [[Holnicote|Holnicote, Setworthy]] by his marriage to the heiress Elizabeth Dyke (d.1753). Her brother was [[Sir John Dyke Acland, 8th Baronet]], who died aged 7.<ref name = "Cokayne (1913), p. 47"/> Carnarvon inherited from his wife the substantial Somerset estates of Pixton and Tetton. Kitty died at [[Shooter's Hill]] in 1813; Herbert survived her for twenty years until 1833.<ref name = "Urban (1833), p. 463"/> By his wife he had five children, three daughters and two sons.<ref>Debrett (1828), p. 201</ref>
* Lady Harriet Elizabeth Herbert (b. 1797), who married Rev. J. C. Stapylton.
* [[Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon]] (1800–1849), who married Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard, eldest daughter of [[Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard]]
* Hon. Edward Charles Hugh Herbert (1802–1852), who married Elizabeth Sweet-Escott, daughter of Prebendary Thomas Sweet-Escott. They had two sons.
* Lady Theresa Elizabeth Mary Herbert (1803–1815)
* Lady Emily Frances Theresa Herbert (d. 1854), who married [[Philip Pusey|Philip Bouverie-Pusey]], paternal grandson of [[Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone]] and maternal grandson of [[Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough]]. They had one son, and two daughters.
==Death and burial==
He died, aged 60, at his London residence in [[Grosvenor Square]] and was buried at [[Burghclere]] in [[Hampshire]].<ref name = "Urban (1833), p. 463"/> He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Henry.<ref name = "Urban (1833), p. 463">Urban (1833), p. 463</ref>
==Porchester's Post==
[[File:Porchester's Post - geograph.org.uk - 54614.jpg|thumb|"Porchester's Post", Exmoor, Somerset, viewed in 2005, erected by the 2nd Earl of Carnarvon in 1796, the year of his marriage]]
The westernmost boundary of the historic estate of [[Pixton Park]] in Somerset is marked by "Porchester's Post", a 10-foot high oak obelisk first erected in 1796 for that purpose, by the 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, of [[Highclere Castle]] in [[Hampshire]], husband of Elizabeth "Kitty" Acland, heiress of Pixton, whom he had married that year. He was then aged 24 and until his father's death in 1811 was known by his courtesy title of [[Lord Porchester]]. It is located high up on [[Exmoor]] between Withypool Hill and Halscombe Allotment (grid reference SS 828 334), 7 miles north-west of Pixton Park. It was renewed and re-erected in 2002 by the [[Exmoor National Park]] Authority. A brass plaque attached to it is inscribed as follows:<ref>[http://offthebeatentrackinsomerset.blogspot.com/2017/08/porchesters-post-exmoor.html For image see]</ref><br />
:"First erected in 1796 to mark the boundary of the Carnarvon Estate. Re-erected in memory of [[Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon|Lord Porchester, Earl of Carnarvon]], the Chairman of the 1977 inquiry into the protection of moorland on Exmoor and to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002".
==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{cite book | last = Cokayne | first = George Edward | editor = Vicary Gibbs | publisher = William Pollard Co. Ltd. | title = The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom | volume = III | year = 1913 | location = Exeter }}
*{{cite book | last = Doyle | first = James William Edmund | title = The Official Baronage of England | year = 1886 | publisher = Longmans, Green & Co. | volume = I | location = London | authorlink = James William Edmund Doyle }}
*{{cite book | last = Thorne | first = R. G. | title = The House of Commons, 1790-1820 | volume = I | publisher = Secker & Warburg | location = London | year = 1986 | ISBN = 0-436-52101-6 }}
*{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | volume = I | edition = 4th | year = 1832 }}
*{{cite book | last = Debrett | first = John | publisher = G. Woodfall | edition = 17th | title = Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | volume = I | year = 1828 | location = London }}
*{{cite book | last = Sylvanus | first = Urban | title = The Gentleman's Magazine | location = London | publisher = John Bowyer Nichols and Son | year = 1833 | volume = part I }}
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