Deaths on January 23

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

Died on January 23, 1650

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1584)

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, (10 October 1584 – 23 January 1650) was an English courtier, nobleman, and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I. Philip and his older brother William were the 'incomparable pair of brethren' to whom the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected works was dedicated in 1623.

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Battle of Dunbar (1650)
Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
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