Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke

Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery (8 September 1880 – 13 January 1960)^[1] was a British peer. His parents were Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham. He descends from a Russian aristocratic family, the Woronzows, through the marriage of Catherine Woronzow to George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.^[2][3]

Pembroke married Lady Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the marquesses of Anglesey) on 21 January 1904 and they had three children:

• Lady Patricia Herbert (12 November 1904 – 19 March 1994);
• Sidney, Lord Herbert (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969); and
• The Honourable David Herbert (3 October 1908 – 3 April 1995).

Pembroke was succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son.^[4]

During World War II he worked at the Foreign Office. In 1943, Lord Pembroke received an amusing letter from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador in Moscow.^[5]

My Dear Reggie, In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt. We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that. (signed) Archie

Ancestry

Ancestors of Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke

16. Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke               8. George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke                       17. Lady Elizabeth Spencer               4. Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea                             18. Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov               9. Countess Ekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsov                       19. Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina               2. Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke                                   20. Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet               10. Gen. Charles Ash à Court-Repington                       21. Laetitia Wyndham               5. Mary Elizabeth Ashe à Court-Repington                             22. Abraham Gibbs               11. Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs                       23. Mary Elizabeth Douglas               1. Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery                                         24. William Henry Lambton, MP               12. John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham                       25. Lady Anne Barbara Frances Villiers               6. George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham                             26. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey               13. Lady Louisa Elizabeth Grey                       27. Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby               3. Lady Beatrix Louisa Lambton                                   28. James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton               14. James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn                       29. Harriet Douglas               7. Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton                             30. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford               15. Lady Louisa Jane Russell                       31. Lady Georgiana Gordon

References

1. Royal Genealogical Data page
2. http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal25789/
3. Woronzow, HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.
4. Lundy, Darryl. Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, The Peerage.com, accessed 23 May 2012
5. "We all feel like that now and then," Letters of Note, 28 October 2009, accessed 9 March 2013