Percy Herbert (other)
Percy Herbert may refer to: * Percy Herbert (actor) (1920–1992), British film and television actor * Percy Herbert (bishop) (1885–1968), English bishop * Percy Herbert (cricketer) (1878-1958), English cricketer * Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis (1598–1667), English nobleman * Percy Egerton Herbert Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (15 April 1822 – 7 October 1876) was a British Army officer and Conservative politician. Background and education Herbert was born at Powis Castle, near Welshpool, the second son of Edward Herber ...

Percy Herbert (actor)
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema. Biography He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship. His acting career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company. Beginning in 1954, he went on to make nearly seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in ''The Cockleshell Heroes'', ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (for which he also worked as consultant as well as suggesting the use of the well-known "Colonel Bogey March" which the prisoners whistled in the film), ''Sea of Sand'', ''Tunes of Glory'', '' The Guns of Navarone'', ''Guns at Batasi'', ''Tob ...
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Percy Herbert (bishop)
The Right Reverend Percy Mark Herbert (24 April 1885 – 22 January 1968) was the first Bishop of Blackburn from 1927 then Bishop of Norwich from 1942 to 1959. He was the Clerk of the Closet from 1942–63. An active Freemason, he was Provincial Grand Master for Norfolk. Early life Percy was the second son of Sybella Augusta ( Milbank) Herbert and Maj.-Gen. Hon. William Henry Herbert, the Mayor of Shrewsbury who lived at Winsley Hall, Shrewsbury. His elder brother, Henry James Herbert, died unmarried in 1911.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684. His paternal grandparents were Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis and the former Lady Lucy Graham (a daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose). His maternal grandparents were Mark William Vane Milbank (grandson of William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland) and Barbarina Sophia F ...
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Percy Herbert (cricketer)
Percy Herbert (12 August 1878 – 24 January 1958) was an English cricketer. Herbert's batting style is unknown. He was born at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. The uncle of the future England Test cricketer Percy Fender, Herbert, a successful club cricketer, was given the chance to play first-class cricket by his nephew in a benefit match in aid of the pavilion attendant at The Oval. The match saw the Gentlemen of the South play the Players of the South, The Players of the South accumulated 551 for 9 by the end of the first day. The Gentlemen were short of players on the second day, having used substitute fielders on the first day, with Fender calling upon his uncle to make up the numbers. It rained on both the second and third days of the match, with no play possible, meaning Herbert has the rare distinction of having never taken to the field during his first-class career, having arrived at the ground on day two, he also never saw a ball bowled. He died at Hove, Sussex on 24 Ja ...
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Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis
Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis (1598 – 19 January 1667), known as Sir Percy Herbert, Bt, between 1622 and 1655, was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622 and later inherited a peerage. Herbert was the son of William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis, and his wife Eleanor Percy (d. 1650). He was named after the surname of his maternal grandfather Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and belonged to a recusant (i. e. Roman Catholic) branch of the Herbert family living in Powis Castle. In 1621 Herbert was elected member of parliament for Shaftesbury at a by-election after the previously elected member was expelled. He was knighted on 7 November 1622, and was created a baronet on 16 November 1622. Herbert inherited the title Baron Powis on the death of his father in 1655. Marriage and issue On 19 November 1622 Herbert married Elizabeth Craven (bap. 1600, d. 1662), first surviving daughter of Sir William Craven (c.1545–1618), converting her ...
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