John Carlyle Herbert [SEP] occupation
John Carlyle Herbert
John Carlyle Herbert (August 16, 1775 – September 1, 1846) was an American politician.
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Herbert was the grandson, through his mother, of the Scottish-born merchant John Carlyle. He received private instruction and graduated from St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland in 1794. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Richmond, Virginia around 1795. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1798 and
Penny. In the colonial period, as many as twenty-five slaves might have lived and worked within its walls and in the various outbuildings.
Following Carlyle's death in 1780, his son George William Carlyle inherited the house. However, he died one year after his father at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina. The son of John Carlyle's eldest daughter Sarah Carlyle Herbert, John Carlyle Herbert, inherited the Carlyle House in 1781. The house passed from the family's possession by 1827 when Sarah Carlyle