Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery (8 September 1880 – 13 January 1960) was a British peer. His parents were

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery, (20 February 1853 – 30 March 1913), styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895, was a British politician and peer. Background and education Herbert was born at ...

and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of

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. He descended from a Russian aristocratic family, the Woronzows, through the marriage of

Catherine Woronzow Catherine Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (''née'' Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova; russian: Екатерина Семёновна Воронцова; 24 October 1784 – 27 March 1856), was a Russian noblewoman who married the Earl of Pembroke. ...

to George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.Woronzow
HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count

Semyon Vorontsov Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (or Woronzow, russian: Семён Романович Воронцо́в; 26 June 17449 July 1832) was a Russian diplomat from the aristocratic Russian Vorontsov family, whose siblings included Alexander Vorontsov ...

, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785. He married Lady Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the

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) on 21 January 1904 and they had four children: * Lady Patricia Herbert (12 November 1904 – 19 March 1994); * Sidney, Lord Herbert (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969); *The Honourable David Herbert (3 October 1908 – 3 April 1995); and *Lt.-Col Hon. Anthony Edward George Herbert (12 September 1911 – 22 August 1971) Pembroke was succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son.Lundy, Darryl
Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke
The Peerage.com, accessed 23 May 2012 During the

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, 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, who was British Ambassador to Moscow.

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1880 births 1960 deaths Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke British people of Russian descent Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire 15 Reginald 20th-century English nobility {{England-earl-stub