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Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke 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 and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of George Lambton, 2nd Earl ...

, mother = Beatrice Eleanor Paget , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = , death_place = , burial_date = , burial_place = , religion = , occupation = Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent , memorials = , website = , module = {{Use dmy dates, date=May 2020 Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969) was a British peer.

Life and career

Herbert was the son of

and Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the

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). His ancestor, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, married Countess Catherine Vorontsov, the daughter of a prominent aristocratic Russian family.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. Pembroke was educated at

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and Pembroke College, Oxford. He served in World War II in the

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. He was Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as Equerry to the

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. He was a 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.

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, 1954–1969, and an

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, 1954–1967.
PEMBROKE, 16th Earl of
', in ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 September 2009 On 27 July 1936 he married Lady Mary Dorothea Hope, daughter of the late

John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908) was a British aristocrat and statesman who served as the first governor-general of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902. He was ...

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.

References

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Earl of Pembroke Earl of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title, which is associated with Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in West Wales, has been recreated ten times from its origin ...

Earl of Montgomery The title Earl of Montgomery (pronounced "Mun-''gum''-ery") was created in the Peerage of England in 1605 for Sir Philip Herbert, younger son of the 2nd Earl of Pembroke. The first Earl inherited the Earldom of Pembroke in 1630 from his brot ...

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