Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor, portrait by Edward Travanyon Haynes. Arms: Windsor quartering Herbert, with inescutcheon of pretence of Clavering (Quarterly or and gules, overall a bend sable)Arms of Windsor: Gules, a saltire argent between twelve cross crosslets or
Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1 May 1707 – 25 January 1758), styled The Honourable Herbert Windsor until 1738, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1738 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Windsor.
He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bramber in 1734 but was instead elected unopposed for Cardiff, a rotten borough controlled by his family. He held the seat until 1738, when he succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords.[2]
He married Alice Clavering (d. November 1776), daughter and heiress of Sir John Clavering, 3rd Baronet, a lady worth £60,000,[2] by whom he had no male issue, but several daughters including:
Charlotte Jane Windsor (1746–1800) (Marchioness of Bute), principal co-heiress, who married John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (then 4th Earl of Bute), who in 1776 was created Baron Cardiff in recognition of the vast estates in South Wales which he had inherited by his marriage. In 1776 the Mountjoy and Windsor titles held by his wife's family were revived when John Stuart was made Viscount Mountjoy, Earl of Windsor and Marquess of Bute.[3]
^G. E. Cokayne et al., eds, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (2000 edition), volume X, page 573
