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John Carlyle Herbert

Grandson of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-born merchant, one of the founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what is now Fairfax Street. Carlyle was a … via his mother 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. ; inherited 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 the Revolutionary War death of his uncle George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle d. 1781 Son of ; inherited in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War. , and held it until 1827.

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John Carlyle Herbert 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 as the eldest grandson of John Carlyle in the maternal line, after his uncle George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle d. 1781 Son of ; inherited in 1780. Killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (September 1781) in the closing campaigns of the Revolutionary War. was killed at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in September 1781 [1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website . He 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.

The forty-six-year Herbert tenancy is the longest single ownership the house has ever known. The Carlyle-Herbert line continues through John Carlyle Herbert’s relations down to 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 … (born at Carlyle House in 1829, 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 … ).

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    Wikipedia, "Carlyle House," accessed 2026.

    Website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_House →

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