HERNE, Joseph (aft.1682-1723), of the Inner Temple, London.

The Hernes, wealthy London merchants and financiers trading to the East Indies and North America from Dartmouth,CSP Col. 1689-92, pp. 500, 509. frequently represented the borough in the early eighteenth century. Joseph Herne, related through his mother to another wealthy London family, also formerly Members for Dartmouth,S. Young, Annals of the Barber-Surgeons, 551-5; E. H. Fellowes, Fam. of Frederick, 19-27. was returned on his family’s interest after a contest. Classed in 1715 as a Tory who might often vote with the Whigs, he voted consistently against the Government, moving the motion against Lord Cadogan (4 June 1717), and speaking against the vote for measures against Sweden (8, 9, 13 Apr. 1717), the Address in three successive sessions (7 May 1717, 11 Nov. 1718, 23 Nov. 1719), the Quadruple Alliance (15 Nov. 1718),Thos. Brodrick to Lady Midleton, 15 Nov. 1718, Brodrick mss. and the peerage bill (7 Dec. 1719). He did not stand in 1722, dying 19 Dec. 1723.