Alfred Herbert

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Sir
Alfred Herbert
KBE
Alfred Herbert at the age of 90
Alfred Herbert at the age of 90
Born(1866-09-05)5 September 1866
Leicester, England
Died26 May 1957(1957-05-26) (aged 90)
King's Somborne, England
NationalityBritish
OrganizationAlfred Herbert Ltd.
Known forBenefactor to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Spouse(s)Ellen Adela (married 1889), Florence Lucus (married 1913), Marian Pugh (married 1933)[1]
Children4

Sir Alfred Edward Herbert KBE (5 September 1866 – 26 May 1957) was an English industrialist and museum benefactor. He moved to Coventry in 1887 to manage a small engineering business which grew to become Alfred Herbert Limited, one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference odnb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Page 4, Alfred Herbert and the British Machine Tool Industry 1887 – 1983, R. Lloyd-Jones and M.J. Lewis, Ashgate, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-0523-2