The Right Reverend Percy Mark Herbert (24 April 1885 – 22 January 1968) was the first
Bishop of Blackburn
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from 1927 then
Bishop of Norwich
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from 1942 to 1959. He was the
Clerk of the Closet
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from 1942–63. An active
Freemason
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, he was
Provincial Grand Master
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for
Norfolk
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.
Early life
Percy was the second son of Sybella Augusta ( Milbank) Herbert and
Maj.-Gen. Hon.
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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
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, U.S.A.
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: Burke's Peerage
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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684.
His paternal grandparents were
Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
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Edward was born on 22 March 1 ...
and the former
Lady Lucy Graham (a daughter of
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
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). His maternal grandparents were Mark William Vane Milbank (grandson of
William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland
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) and Barbarina Sophia Farquhar (a daughter of
Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet).
Herbert was educated at
Rugby
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, graduating in 1907. He later earned a
Doctor of Divinity
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from Trinity College in 1922.
Career
After he was ordained in 1909, he served for a period as
Chaplain
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to his
old school until 1915 before he was appointed
Vicar
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of St George's,
Camberwell
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, and
Warden
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of the ''Trinity Cambridge Mission'' until 1922, additionally serving as
Rural Dean
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of
the area from 1918. In 1921 he was appointed
Bishop of Kingston
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and served as Chaplain to King
George V
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between 1921 and 1922. He was
Archdeacon of Southwark
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and
Bishop Suffragen of Kingston-upon-Thames between 1922 and 1926. He held the office of Bishop of Norwich between 1942 and 1959,
where he presided over a number of prominent weddings, including
Lady Anne Coke and
Colin Tennant in 1956.
After retiring from his post as Bishop of Norwich, Herbert became Rector of
St Mary Magdalene's Church in
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. It was at that church in 1961 where he baptised
the Honourable
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Diana Spencer
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(later Princess of Wales). He was
Clerk of the Closet
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to King
George VI
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from 1942 to 1952 and then to Queen
Elizabeth II
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from 1952 to 1963.
He was appointed
Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order in 1954.
Personal life
On 19 September 1922, he had married Hon. Elaine Letitia Algitha Orde-Powlett, daughter of
William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton
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and the former Hon. Elizabeth Gibson (a daughter of
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
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). Together, they had four children (who were granted the rank of earl's children in 1991):
*
George William Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis (1925–1993), who married Hon. Katharine Odeyne de Grey, daughter of Lt.-Col.
George de Grey, 8th Baron Walsingham
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and Hyacinth Lambart Bouwens, in 1949.
* Hon. David Mark Herbert (1927–1996), chief executive of
Studio Vista
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who married Monica Brenda Swann, daughter of Laurence Edmund Swann, in 1955.
* Lady Elizabeth Barbarina Herbert (b. 1928), who married Maj. Hubert Robert Holden, the
High Sheriff of Shropshire
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and son of Robert Millington Holden, in 1948.
* Hon. Andrew Clive Herbert (1933–2000), who married Carol Mae Charlton, daughter of John Charlton, in 1963. They divorced in 1971 and he married Edith Ann Dominguez, daughter of Aelxander Dominguez, in 1983.
Above all "a pastoral bishop", he died at the
Royal Masonic Hospital
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in London, aged 82.
[''The Rt Rev P. M. Herbert (Obituaries)'' ]The Times
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Tuesday, 23 January 1968; p. 10; Issue 57156; col G Through his eldest son, he is a grandfather of
John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis
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Early life
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.
References
External links
Percy Mark Herbert (1885-1968), Bishop of Blackburn and Bishop of Norwichat
National Portrait Gallery, London
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1885 births
1968 deaths
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Bishops of Kingston
Bishops of Blackburn
Bishops of Norwich
20th-century Church of England bishops
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Clerks of the Closet
Honorary Chaplains to the Queen
Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England
Percy
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