The Herbert family

The Herberts came to Alexandria via William Herbert (Sr.), who married Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829. , a daughter of John Carlyle. Through that marriage they became the second residents of 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 … ; their son John Carlyle Herbert held the property from 1781 until 1827 when it was sold to settle a relative’s gambling debt.

The family’s most prominent figure was Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … (1829-1919), born at Carlyle House and best known as co-founder of 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 … . Arthur built the country estate 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 … on Seminary Hill in 1856 and lived there after the Civil War. His five daughters by Alice Gregory continued the line; the bank remained under combined Burke and Herbert family control into the twenty-first century. ^[1] Source 1 DAC, 'Arthur Herbert — Muckross,' 2020 Website