Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), was a Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, and philosopher, the elder brother of the poet George Herbert. He is remembered for his deist treatise De Veritate (1624) and for his Autobiography.

His poems were published after his death, in Occasional Verses (1665). Herbert Grierson included two of them in Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921).