Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery CVO (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969) was a British peer.

Life and career

Herbert was the son of Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the marquesses of Anglesey). His ancestor, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, married Countess Catherine Vorontsov, the daughter of a prominent aristocratic Russian family.

Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke

Pembroke was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. He served in World War II in the Royal Artillery. He was Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as Equerry to the Duke of Kent. 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. Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1954–1969, and an alderman of Wiltshire County Council, 1954–1967.

Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke

On 27 July 1936 he married Lady 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.

Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke

References

1906 births

1969 deaths

Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford

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Lord-Lieutenants of Wiltshire

Members of Wiltshire County Council

People educated at Eton College

British people of Russian descent

Royal Artillery officers

20th-century English nobility