HERBERT, Sir Thomas, a gentleman of the Pembroke family, was born at York, where his father was an alderman. William, earl of Pembroke, sent him abroad in 1626; and he spent four years in travelling through Asia and Africa. 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 the desire of the parliamentary commissioners, he and James Harrington were retained as groom of the bed-chamber, and attended the king even to the block. At the Restoration he was created a baronet by Charles II. for his faithful services to his father during the last two years of his life. In 1678 he wrote Threnodia Carolina, containing an account of the last two 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 1782, leaving several manuscripts to the public library at Oxford, and others to that of the cathedral at York.