Aubrey Herbert

Colonel The Honourable
Aubrey Herbert
DL
Member of Parliament
for South Somerset
In office
1911–1918
Preceded bySir Edward Strachey
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for Yeovil
In office
1918–1923
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byGeorge Davies
Personal details
Born
Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert

3 April 1880[1]
Highclere Castle, Newbury, Berkshire
Died23 September 1923(1923-09-23) (aged 43)
London, England
Cause of deathSepsis
Political partyConservative
SpouseMary Gertrude Vesey
Children4
Parent(s)Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
Elizabeth Catherine Howard
EducationEton College
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
RankColonel
UnitIrish Guards
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsOrder of the White Eagle
Detail of effigy of Hon. Aubrey Herbert in the Herbert Chapel, Church of St Nicholas, Brushford, Somerset
Effigy of Herbert in the Herbert Chapel, Brushford Church
Arms of Herbert: Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant argent as visible in the Herbert Chapel
Arms of Hon. Aubrey Herbert, of six quarters with inescutcheon of pretence of Vesey, for his wife, an heraldic heiress. Herbert Chapel, Brushford Church

Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert DL (3 April 1880 – 26 September 1923), of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal,[2][3] in Nottinghamshire,[4] was a British soldier, diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence. He was twice offered the throne of Albania.[5][6] From 1911 until his death he was a Conservative Member of Parliament.[7] His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 698–699. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ Per inscription on his monument in Brushford Church, Somerset
  3. ^ "The Teversal estate in Nottinghamshire, formerly belonging to the Molyneux family, was brought into the Herbert family by Henrietta Howard, daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard of Greystoke, who married Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, later 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, in 1830" (Somerset Heritage Centre, Ref:DD\DRU: "HERBERT FAMILY OF PIXTON PARK, Dulverton")
  4. ^ "Statesmen and M.P's". Nottshistory.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Simon & Schuster, 2002) p. 405 ("[Herbert] had been offered and turned down the Crown of Albania, after Lloyd George, 'who had the imaginative but quixotic idea that the head of a Scottish clan might make an admirable leader of the mountain tribes of Albania', had proffered it twice to Aubrey Herbert, MP.")
  6. ^ Jeremy Paxman, On Royalty (Penguin Books, 2007)
  7. ^ "Death of Col. Aubrey Herbert". The Times. 27 September 1923. p. 13.