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SIR THOMAS HERBERT (1606-1682)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:HERBERT (1606-1682)  , See also:English traveller and author, was See also:born at See also:York in 1606 . Several of his ancestors were aldermen and merchants in that See also:city—e.g. his grandfather and benefactor, See also:Alderman See also:Herbert (d . 1614)—and they traced a connexion with the earls of See also:Pembroke . See also:Thomas became a commoner of Jesus See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1621, but afterwards removed to See also:Cambridge, through the See also:influence of his See also:uncle Dr See also:Ambrose Akroyd . In 1627 the See also:earl of Pembroke procured his See also:appointment in the See also:suite of See also:Sir Dodmore See also:Cotton, then starting as See also:ambassador for See also:Persia with Sir See also:Robert See also:Shirley . Sailing in See also:March they visited the Cape, See also:Madagascar, See also:Goa and See also:Surat; landing at Gambrun (loth of See also:January 1627-1628), they travelled inland to Ashraf and thence to See also:Kazvin, where both Cotton and Shirley died, and whence Herbert made extensive travels in the See also:Persian See also:Hinterland, visiting See also:Kashan, See also:Bagdad, &c . On his return voyage he touched at See also:Ceylon, the Coromandel See also:coast, See also:Mauritius and St See also:Helena . He reached See also:England in 1629, travelled in See also:Europe in 163o-1631, married in 1632 and retired from See also:court in 1634 (his prospects perhaps blighted by Pembroke's See also:death in 1630); after this he resided on his Tintern See also:estate and elsewhere till the See also:Civil See also:War, siding with the See also:parliament till his appointment to attend on the See also:king in 1646 . Becoming a devoted royalist, he was rewarded with a baronetcy at the Restoration (1660) . He resided mainly in York See also:Street, See also:Westminster, till the See also:Great See also:Plague (1666), when he retired to York, where he died (at Petergate See also:House) on the 1st of March 1682 . Herbert's See also:chief See also:work is the Description of the Persian See also:Monarchy now beinge: the Orientall Ind yes, Iles and other parts of the Greater See also:Asia and Africk (1634), reissued with additions, &c., in 1638 as Some Yeares Travels into See also:Africa and Asia the Great (al. into See also:divers parts of Asia and Afrique) ; a third edition followed in 1664, and a See also:fourth in 1677 . This is one of the best records of 17th-See also:century travel .

Among its illustrations are remarkable sketches of the See also:

dodo, See also:cuneiform See also:inscriptions and See also:Persepolis . Herbert's Threnodies Carolina; or, See also:Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of that unparallell'd See also:prince of ever blessed memory King See also:Charles I., was in great See also:part printed at the author's See also:request in See also:Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; in full by Dr C . Goodall in his Collection of Tracts (1702, repr . G . & W . See also:Nicol, 1813) . Sir See also:William See also:Dugdale is understood to have received assistance from Herbert in the Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. iv.; see two of Herbert's papers on St See also:John's, See also:Beverley and See also:Ripon collegiate See also:church, now See also:cathedral, in See also:Drake's Eboracum (appendix) . Cf. also Robert See also:Davies' See also:account of Herbert in The See also:Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical See also:Journal, part iii., pp . 182-214 (1870), containing a facsimile of the inscription on Herbert's See also:tomb; Wood's Athenae, iv . 15-41; and See also:Fasti, i1 . 26, 131, 138, 143-144, 150 .

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