- Algernon Herbert
Algernon Herbert (
July 12 1792 –June 11 1855 ), was an English antiquary.cite web | last =Boase | first =George C. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Herbert, Algernon (1792–1855), antiquary | work =Dictionary of National Biography Vol. XXV | publisher =Smith, Elder & Co. | date = 1891 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=13016 | format = HTML | doi = | accessdate = 2007-11-20]Biography
Herbert was the sixth and youngest son of
Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon by Elizabeth Alicia Maria, elder daughter ofCharles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont . He was educated at Eton from 1805 onwards, and progressed toChrist Church, Oxford , where he matriculated on 23 October 1810. He went on to study at Exeter College, and graduated B.A. in 1813 and M.A. in 1825. He was elected a fellow of Merton College in 1814; became sub-warden in 1826, and dean in 1828.On 27 November 1818 he was called to the bar at the
Inner Temple . 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,
Jersey ; she died on 7 August 1870. They had one son, SirRobert George Wyndham Herbert , and two daughters. Herbert died atIckleton ,Cambridgeshire .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
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