SIR NATHANIEL HERNE.

Sir Nathaniel Herne was the son of Nicholas and grandson of Richard Herne (Alderman and Sheriff in 1618). He was born in 1629 and in 1646 apprenticed at Barber-Surgeons’ Hall to Sir John Frederick, one of the merchant-princes of London at that time. Herne was admitted to the freedom on 7th May, 1655, and, like the typical industrious apprentice, he married his master’s daughter, Judith Frederick, by whom he had (among others) a daughter Judith who married William, second Earl of Jersey, and thereby was one of the ancestors of the present Earl. Sir Nathaniel Herne was a most successful merchant and amassed a large fortune. In 1674 he was Sheriff of London (being knighted at Windsor on the 9th August) and Master of this Company. On the 11th April, 1676, he was elected Alderman of the Ward of Billingsgate. He was sometime M.P. for Dartmouth, and a Governor of the East India Company. He died 16th August, 1679, being then fifty years of age and was buried at St. Olave Jewry, where there is a monument to his memory, with his arms impaling Frederick, and this inscription:—

M S.

Here lyeth in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection the body of S^r Nathaniel Herne Knight late Sherife And at his death Alderman of this Famous Citty and Governour of the Honourable East India Company, Son to Nicholas and Grandson to Richard Herne sometimes Alderman allso of this Citty A Person of great Prudence and Indefatigable Industry in the Management of all Publick Affairs, of Exemplary Piety, Spotless Integrity and Diffusive Charity having with his owne hand dispenced very considerable summes to many Charitable uses Particularly to the reliefe of poore Seamen & Educating of their Children. He tooke to wife Judith Eldest Daughter of S^r John Frederick Knight Alderman and sometimes Lord Mayor of London, his now sorrowfull Widdow by whome he had divers Children and left three hopefull Sons surviving viz^t Frederick, Nathaniel, and Thomas, to whose and to this Cittyes & Nations great loss as allso to y^e griefe of all them that knew him He departed this Life y^e 16^th August, 1679 Ætat 50.

Sir Nathaniel by his Will dated 12th April, 1677, left a large property between his wife and children, and legacies to Sir John and Lady Frederick, Ephraim Skinner and numerous other friends and relatives.

Arms. Sa. a chev. erm. between three Herons ar.

Nicholas Herne

of Tybenham,
Norfolk.

Richard Herne

Alice dau. of

Sheriff 1618 and
Alderman, lived at
the Blue Anchor in
Cheapside.

John Pasck, D.D., of Cambridge.

1st. Elizabeth

Nicholas Herne

Sarah dau. of

dau. of Nicholas Hooker of London Goldsmith.

of London,
s. & h.

Rich^d Ironside of London.

1 Richard Herne

2 Nicholas
Herne
s.p.

3 John
Herne.

Susan.
Mary.
Katherine.

4 Sir Nathaniel Herne

Judith dau.

5 James Herne.

6 Sir Joseph Herne

Elizabeth d.

7 Basil Herne

b. 1629, d. 1679.
Alderman of London
Barber-Surgeon.

of Sir John
Frederick
Lord Mayor.

of London Merch^t

of Sir John
Frederick.

of Hampstead.

Fredk Herne, of

. . . . d. of Lile

Nathaniel

. . . . d. of

Thomas
Herne
d. unm.

Judith m.

William

London, Esqr. bur. at S^t Brides.

of Northamptonshire.

Herne, Esq., M.P.

Sir Arthur Ingram of London.

22 March, 1704, at Hampstead.

2^nd Earl of
Jersey.

a son died
young.

a daughter

Edward Villiers

Earl of Jersey.

. . . . Herne

“worth £40,000.”

son and heir of the Earl of Jersey.

. . . . Herne

Sir William Herne, born, 1745, Alderman of Castle Baynard and Sheriff in 1797. d. 20 Dec., 1838, bur. in the Chancel at Bray Church.