Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke

Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery DL (8 September 1880 – 13 January 1960)[1] was a British peer. His parents were Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham. He descends from a Russian aristocratic family, the Woronzows, through the marriage of Catherine Woronzow to George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.[2][3]

Pembroke married Lady Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the marquesses of Anglesey) on 21 January 1904 and they had four children:

Pembroke was succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son.[4][5]


During World War II he worked at the Foreign Office, in which capacity he was the addressee of an often-reproduced humorous note sent by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (then British Ambassador to Moscow).[6]

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Sidney Herbert
Earl of Pembroke
19131960
Succeeded by
Sidney Herbert

References

  1. Royal Genealogical Data page
  2. http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal25789/
  3. Woronzow, HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.
  4. Lundy, Darryl. Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, The Peerage.com, accessed 23 May 2012
  5. "Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery". Obituary. The Times (54, 668). London. 14 January 1960. p. 17.
  6. "We all feel like that now and then". Retrieved 12 February 2019.


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