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Sir Thomas Herbert (1606 - 1682), traveller and historian, belonged to an
old Yorkshire family, studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and went in connection
with an embassy to Persia, of which, and of other Oriental countries, he
published a description. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was a
Parliamentarian, but was afterwards taken into the household of the King,
to whom he became much attached, was latterly his only attendant, and was
with him on the scaffold. At the Restoration he was made a Baronet, and
in 1678 published Threnodia Carolina, an account of the last two years of
the King's life.
Herbert, Thomas
Herbert, Thomas
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