Background
He was the son of Henry Arthur Herbert (1815–1866), and his wife the Scottish watercolourist Mary Balfour Herbert. He inherited his father"s Muckross House and estate, near Killarney.
He was the son of Henry Arthur Herbert (1815–1866), and his wife the Scottish watercolourist Mary Balfour Herbert. He inherited his father"s Muckross House and estate, near Killarney.
His great-grandfather was Henry Arthur Herbert (1756–1821), Member of Parliament for Kerry from 1806–1813,
In the 1870s this estate amounted to over 47,000 acres in County Kerry. Under Henry Arthur Herberts reign the fortunes of the Muckross estate declined until it became insolvent in 1897. A year later, the estate was forfeited to the Standard Life Assurance Company and the long association of the Herbert family with Muckross House was ended.
After the auction of the property in November 1899 had failed, it was bought a week later by Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun.
At that time Henry Arthur Herbert suffered from Parkinson"s disease and was living in the home of his doctor in Watford (Hertfordshire), where he died in August 1901. He is buried in the Killegy graveyard near Muckross House.
Henry Arthur Herbert was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Kerry. He was appointed High Sheriff of Kerry in 1881.
He was a major in the London Irish Rifles and a captain in the Coldstream Guards.
Shortly after his father"s death, Henry Arthur Herbert married the Honorary Emily Julia Charlotte Keane (*12 January 1848, †2 July 1911) from County Waterford, the daughter of Edward Arthur Wellington Keane, 2nd Baron Keane, and Louisa Caroline Lydia Benyon. Neither party remarried.
They had three children, Henry Arthur Edward Keane Herbert (1867-1931), Kathleen Keane Herbert (since 1868) and Gladys Keane Herbert (since 1873).
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He sat in Parliament as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for County Kerry from 1866 until 1880.