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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor

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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor
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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1 May 1707 – 25 January 1758), styled The Honourable Herbert Windsor until 1738, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1738 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Windsor.

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Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, portrait by Edward Travanyon Haynes. Arms: Windsor quartering Herbert, with inescutcheon of pretence of Clavering (Quarterly or and gules, overall a bend sable)
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Origins

He was the son and heir of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, by his wife Lady Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke.[1]

Career

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bramber in 1734 but was instead elected unopposed for Cardiff, a rotten borough controlled by his family. He held the seat until 1738, when he succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords.[2]

Marriage and issue

He married Alice Clavering (d. November 1776), daughter and heiress of Sir John Clavering, 3rd Baronet, a lady worth £60,000,[2] by whom he had no male issue, but several daughters including:

Death and succession

He died in January 1758, aged 54. As he had no sons, his titles became extinct.

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