Richard Herbert, of Montgomery Castle

1. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury (or Cherbury), diplomat, poet and philosopher,
   born 1583,
   father of English deism,
   deism was the philosophy of choice for western sceptics before Darwin made atheism intellectually possible in 1859, by providing, in the Origin of Species, the first serious answer to the Argument from Design,
   as the noted atheist Richard Dawkins puts it, "I could not imagine being an atheist at any time before 1859",
   indeed in the 17th cent Herbert disbelieved that atheism could exist, he wrote: "In reality there are no atheists",
   cr 1629,
   died 1648, age 65 yrs,
   bur St.Giles in the fields, New Oxford St, London.
   Title extinct 1691 (see [Burkes Extinct]).

   
   

2. George Herbert, the metaphysical poet,
   born 3rd Apr 1593, Montgomery Castle, Powys,
   educ Trinity College, Cambridge,
   see his works, author of The Collar,
   vicar of Bemerton, Wiltshire (E of Wilton House) 1630-33,
   think wrote about Wiltshire country in his poems, author of hymns,
   died 1st Mar 1633, age 39 yrs,
   bur in Bemerton church [according to John Aubrey],
   memorial to him in N Quire Aisle of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire.

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