Sarah Carlyle Herbert

Sarah (“Sally”) Carlyle was a daughter of the Scottish merchant John Carlyle and is documented in the Carlyle House records as having “practiced the spinet” at Mount Vernon under the Washingtons’ patronage as a young woman. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Carlyle House Website

Her marriage to William Herbert produced the line that inherited Carlyle House after John Carlyle’s death in 1780; her son John Carlyle Herbert held the property until 1827. Sarah’s grandson 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 … in 1852 — was the inheritor of the Carlyle-Herbert line at its mid-nineteenth-century peak.

Documentary detail about Sarah’s own dates and life beyond the spinet anecdote is sparse in readily available sources; this entity is a research scaffold for the Carlyle House and Herbert family archives.