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George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis

British peer

Field	Value
title	Earl of Powis
caption	Portrait by Pompeo Batoni, 1776
birth_name	George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert
birth_date	7 July 1755
birth_place	Finchley, London, Kingdom of Great Britain
death_date
death_place	York House Hotel, London, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
date of burial	January 1801
burial_place	St Mary's Church
noble family	Herbert
father	Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis
mother	Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis

Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) - George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert (1755–1801), 2nd Earl of Powis of the Second Creation - 1181071 - National Trust.jpg George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (7 July 1755 – 16 January 1801), styled Viscount Ludlow until 1772, was a British peer.

Early life

Herbert was born at Finchley, Middlesex, the son of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, by Barbara Herbert, daughter of Lord Edward Herbert. He was educated at Eton College.

Career

He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1772 and was appointed Recorder of Ludlow and Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire in 1776. Also in 1776 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury. Powis was commissioned as Colonel to embody the Montgomeryshire Militia in 1778. In 1798 he was also made Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire; he was also appointed colonel of the Shropshire Militia in place of the Montgomeryshire. He retained both Lord-Lieutenancies until his death in 1801.

Lord Powis made a Grand Tour in Italy in 1775–76, when he probably acquired a collection of marble sculpture preserved at his family seat, Powis Castle. He added a ballroom but did little to maintain the house, visitor John Byng in 1784 ascribing its neglected state to his time spent "in the prodigalities of London and in driving high phaetons up St James's Street." At a later visit (1793) he wrote: "The present (grandly-descended peer) is a mean silly man, the bubble of his mistress (and of his steward consequently) who rarely comes here, to sneak for about a day or two."

Personal life

Lord Powis died at the York House Hotel, Albemarle Street, London, in January 1801, aged 45, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Welshpool. He was unmarried and the titles died with him. His sister and heir, Lady Henrietta, married Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive, who was created Earl of Powis in 1804.

References

(1945). "The Complete Peerage, Volume X". St Catherine's Press.
''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 3209
Doyle, James William Edmund. (1886). "The Official Baronage of England, v. 3". Longmans, Green.
{{London Gazette. (5 November 1776)
Keeling-Roberts, Margaret. (1981). "In Retrospect: A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary". North Shropshire Printing Company.
{{London Gazette. (2 May 1778)
{{London Gazette. (27 March 1798)
{{London Gazette. (16 June 1798)
(1996). "Powis Castle, Powys". The National Trust.

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