Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke
Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969)[1] was a British peer.
Pembroke was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. Served War of 1939–1945 in Royal Artillery and Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as Equerry to the Duke of Kent. Trustee of the National Gallery, 1942–1949 and 1953–1960; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, 1944–1958; Member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1941–1958. President of Historic Churches Trust. Justice of the Peace, 1954. Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1954–1969, and an alderman of Wiltshire County Council, 1954–1967.[2]
On 27 July 1936 he married Mary Dorothea Hope, daughter of the late John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow and the Dowager Marchioness of Linlithgow. The couple had two children: Lady Diana Mary Herbert (19 April 1937–24 November 2008) and Henry George Charles Herbert (19 May 1939–7 October 2003). He was succeeded by his son.
[edit] References
- ^ Royal Genealogical Data page
- ^ PEMBROKE, 16th Earl of, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 Sept 2009
| Honorary titles | ||
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| Preceded by The Duke of Somerset |
Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire 1954–1969 |
Succeeded by The Lord Margadale |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by Reginald Herbert |
Earl of Pembroke 1960–1969 |
Succeeded by Henry Herbert |
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