HERBERT, Sir Thomas, an eminent gentleman of the Pembroke family, was born at York, where his father was an alderman. William earl of Pembroke sent him to travel at his expense in 1626, and he spent four years in visiting Asia and Africa: his expectations of preferment ending with the death of the earl, he went abroad again, and travelled over several parts of Europe. In 1634, he published, in folio, A Relation of some Years Travel into Africa and the Great Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian monarchy, and some parts of the Oriental Indies and isles adjacent. On the breaking out of the civil war, he adhered to the parliament; and at Oldenby, on the removal of the king's servants, by desire of the commissioners from the parliament, he and James Harrington were retained as grooms of his bed-chamber, and attended him even to the block. At the reformation he was created a baronet by Charles II. for his faithful services to his father during his two last years. In 1678 he wrote Threnodia Carolina, containing an account of the two last years of the life of Charles I. and he assisted Sir William Dugdale in compiling the third volume of his Monasticon Anglicanum. He died at York in 1682, leaving several MSS. to the public library at Oxford, and others to that of the cathedral at York.