561 Henry Herbert

Constituency : Kerry  1866-80

Henry  replaced  his  identically-named   and  recently-deceased   father  in  Kerry  where  the  family  had   an  iron  grip  on  one  of  the  seats.

Henry  also  inherited  the  huge  estate  of  Muckross  but  was  not  able  to  manage  it  effectively. The estate  became  insolvent  in  1897  and  was  forfeited  a  year  later.

Henry  was  a  Protestant  but  supported  the  disestablishment  of  the  Irish  Church  and  land  reform.

Henry was  a  major  in  the  London  Irish  Rifles   and  a  captain  in  the  Coldstream  Guards.

Henry  suffered  from  Parkinson's  Disease  in  later  life.

He  died  in  1901  aged  61.