HERBERT (George), an English poet and divine, was brother to the preceding. He was born in 1593, and educated at Cambridge. In 1619 he was chosen public orator of that university, and afterwards obtained a sinecure from the king. In 1626 he was collated to the prebend of Layton Ecclesia, in the diocese of Lincoln; and in 1630 was inducted into the rectory of Bamerton, near Sarum. The great lord Bacon had such an opinion of his judgment, that he would not suffer his works to be printed before they had passed his examination. He wrote a volume of devout poems, called The Temple, and another intitled The Priest of the Temple. This pious divine died about the year 1635.