Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury

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Richard Herbert (died 1596), Lord of Cherbury (or Chirbury), and of Montgomery Castle, was an English Justice of the Peace and Parliamentarian who was High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1576 and 1584 and Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire in 1594-1596.

Richard was the eldest son of Edward Herbert through whom he was a member of a collateral branch of the family of the Earls of Pembroke. He married Magdalene, daughter of Sir Richard Newport. His eldest son, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury was born on 3 March 1583 at Eyton-on-Severn near Wroxeter.

Subsequent children were Anne, Elizabeth, Margaret, Richard, William, George (born 3 April 1593), Henry (born 1595), Frances, and Thomas (born 1597). By 1593 the family had moved to Black Hall, a large, low house in a valley overlooked by the castle.

After his death in 1596 while his wife was pregnant with their tenth child, Richard Herbert was buried on 15 October in a canopied tomb in the parish church of Saint Nicholas, Montgomery. His family moved to Oxford and then to London.

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