Arthur Herbert

Arthur Herbert was born July 27, 1829 at 121 North Fairfax Street Place 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … in Alexandria to William Herbert and Henrietta Maria Dulany ^[1] Source 1 DAC, 'Arthur Herbert — Muckross,' 2020 Website . His mother died when he was a child; he was raised by his uncle John Peyton in Loudoun County. In 1852, at twenty-three, he joined the older merchant John W. Burke Person John W. Burke b. 1825 Senior partner who at age 27 joined the twenty-three-year-old on August 14, 1852 to open the Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office at the corner of Prince and Lee Streets … to form Burke & Herbert, a stock-and-real-estate commission firm that grew into Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … , the oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia.

In September 1856 Herbert bought 57¼ acres south of Old Leesburg Road and named the estate “Muckross” after the Herberts’ ancestral seat in Ireland. He served as an officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Federal forces demolished the original Muckross house in 1862 to clear sightlines for Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Place Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork Fort Worth (1861-1865), and finally the … ; Herbert returned after the war and rebuilt directly atop the fort’s powder magazine. He was a trustee of 3737 Seminary Road Place 3737 Seminary Road Episcopal theological seminary founded in Alexandria in 1823 and relocated to its present hilltop campus in 1827. Occupied by Union forces during the Civil War and used as a … and a founding member of the R. E. Lee Camp.

Herbert married Alice Gregory of Sussex County on July 5, 1865 and raised five daughters at Muckross. He retired from the bank in 1899 and died at Muckross on February 23, 1919, age 89. He is buried at 2823 King Street Place 2823 King Street Garden cemetery established 1856 on the western edge of Alexandria; among its interments are several mayors and Confederate veterans. NRHP-listed 2025. .