Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 11 December 1669), was an English nobleman and politician.

Life He was the second son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife Susan de Vere. In February 1632 he appeared with his elder brother Charles in the masque Tempe Restored at Whitehall Palace. Two months later the two boys matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford. In the summer of 1635 they embarked on a Continental tour. Charles contracted smallpox and died in Florence in early January 1636. As a result of his death Philip became the heir to their father's titles.

Portrait of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, his wife Susan de Vere and his Family, by Anthony van Dyck.

In 1639 he became a captain in the Household Volunteer Regiment of Horse Guards. He was MP for Wiltshire in the Short Parliament of 1640. In the Long Parliament he sat initially for Glamorgan 1640–1649 and then Berkshire. Philip succeeded his father as earl in 1650 According to Pepys, he had an idiosyncratic interpretation of the doctrine of Original Sin.

Family In 1639 he married Penelope Naunton (1620–1647), William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke

In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers (d. 1678), daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet and his 3rd wife Rebecca, daughter of Robert Roper of Heanor, Derbyshire. Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett On her death Catherine was also buried at Salisbury.