John Carlyle Herbert

John Carlyle Herbert was born in 1777 to William Herbert (Sr.) Person William Herbert (Sr.) Anglo-Irish merchant of Alexandria; husband of and father of the children who carried and the Carlyle name into the Herbert, Norris, Fairfax-of-Ashgrove, and … and Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Eldest daughter of and ; her marriage to carried into the Herbert family. Mother of (held the house 1781-1827) and (m. Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax 1800); great-grandmother of . , eldest grandson of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … in the maternal line ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book . He took title to 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 1781, after his uncle George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle b. 1766 · d. 1781 Only surviving son of by his second wife ; inherited in 1780 at fourteen and was killed at fifteen at the Battle of Eutaw Springs as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion. was killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in September 1781 ^[2] Source 2 Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website , and held the property for the next forty-six years, occupying it as a residence and (intermittently) as a rental until selling in 1827 to John Lloyd to settle a relative’s gambling debt.

On 7 March 1805 he married Mary Snowden, daughter of Thomas and Anne Snowden of Maryland. Twelve children of the marriage are recorded by Spencer (1910), including Thomas Snowden Herbert MD (b. 1806); Ann Caroline Herbert (1808-1873, m. Henry Fairfax of Ashgrove); Sarah Carlyle Herbert (1812-1850, m. Archibald Blair Fairfax US Navy); Mary Virginia Herbert (1816-1836, m. Capt. Thomas T. Hunter); and Lucinda Herbert (1824-1910, m. John L. Eversfield) ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

From the Maryland family seat into which he married, John Carlyle Herbert was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served as Member of Congress from Maryland, 1816-1820. He died 1 September 1846 in Maryland.

The forty-six-year Herbert tenancy of Carlyle House is the longest single ownership the property has ever known. The Carlyle-Herbert line continues through his brother William Herbert (Jr.) and that brother’s son 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), 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 … in 1852.