WESTFALING, Herbert Rudhale (?1671-1743), of Rudhall, Herefs.

Westfaling was descended from Herbert Westfaling, bishop of Hereford 1585-1602. His father, M.P. Hereford 1660 and 1661-79, inherited the house and a considerable part of the estates of the Rudhales, one of the oldest Herefordshire families, into which the Westfalings had married. Westfaling himself was closely connected, both in politics and business, with the Duke of Chandos, who referred to him as ‘cousin Westfaling’.1Baker, Jas. Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, 80, 290. Returned as a Whig for Hereford in 1717, after contesting it unsuccessfully with the support of Chandos and Lord Coningsby in 1715,2Chandos to Westfaling and Ld. Coningsby, 31 Dec. 1714, Chandos letter bks. he voted for the peerage bill in 1719. He was re-elected unopposed in 1722, when Chandos instructed his local agent to exert himself to the utmost for him.3Chandos to Capt. Herring, 8 Mar. 1722, ibid. In 1727 he stood with Chandos’s son, Lord Carnarvon, but withdrew on a compromise to secure Carnarvon’s election.4Chandos to Sir Robt. Walpole, 19 Aug., and to Westfaling, 25 Aug. 1727, ibid. He did not stand again, dying November 1743.