Background
Percy was the son of Major-General the Honourable William Henry Herbert (himself the son of Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis) and his wife Sybella (nee Milbank).
Percy was the son of Major-General the Honourable William Henry Herbert (himself the son of Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis) and his wife Sybella (nee Milbank).
Trinity College.
He was also a Doctor of Divinity. He was the Clerk of the Closet from 1942-1963. An active Freemason, he was Provincial Grand Master for Norfolk.
Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1909.
After a period as Chaplain to his old school he was appointed Vicar of Street George"s, Camberwell, and Warden of the Trinity Cambridge Mission until 1922, additionally serving as Rural Dean of the area from 1918. Elaine Orde-Powlett, daughter of William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton and they had four children:
In 1921 he was also appointed Bishop of Kingston.
Further appointments followed, and after retiring from his post as Bishop of Norwich, Herbert became Rector of Street Mary Magdalene"s Church in Sandringham. lieutenant was at that church in 1961 where he baptised the Honourable Diana Spencer (later Princess of Wales).
Above all "a pastoral bishop", he died at the Royal Masonic Hospital in London, aged 82.