Algernon Herbert (12 July 1792 – 11 June 1855) was an

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Biography

Herbert was the sixth and youngest son of

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by Elizabeth Alicia Maria, elder daughter of

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. He was educated at Eton from 1805 onwards, and progressed to Christ Church, Oxford, where he

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on 23 October 1810. He went on to study at Exeter College, and graduated

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in 1813 and

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in 1825. He was elected a fellow of

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in 1814; became sub-warden in 1826, and dean in 1828. On 27 November 1818 he was called to the bar at the

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. Herbert was the author of some remarkable works replete with abstruse learning. They are, however, discursive, and his arguments are inconclusive. He married, on 2 August 1830, Marianne, sixth daughter of Thomas Lempriere of La Motte,

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; she died on 7 August 1870. They had one son, Sir

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, and two daughters. Herbert died at

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Works

His works were: # ''Nimrod, a Discourse upon Certain Passages of History and Fable'', 1826; reprinted and remodelled in 2 vols., 1828, with a third volume in the same year, and vol. iv in 1829–30. # An article on "Werewolves", by A. Herbert, pp. 1–45, in ''The Ancient English Romance of William and the Werwolf'' (ed. F. Madden, Roxburghe Club, 1832). # ''Britannia after the Romans'', 1836–41, 2 vols. # ''Nennius, the Irish version of the Historia Britonum. Introduction and Notes by A. Herbert'', 1848. # ''Cyclops Christianus, or the supposed Antiquity of Stonehenge'', 1849. # "On the Poems of the Poor of Lyons", and three other articles in the appendix to J. H. Todd's ''Books of the Vaudois'' (1865), pp. 93, 126, 135, 172.

References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Herbert, Algernon 1792 births 1855 deaths Algernon Herbert People educated at Eton College Younger sons of earls Members of the Inner Temple Fellows of Merton College, Oxford