Career
He was re-elected in the 1874 and in 1880 general elections, and held the seat until he died in office in 1881, aged 59. Hermon"s last recorded contribution to debates in the House of Commons was eight days before his death, aged 59, on 28 April 1881, when he asked Prime Minister Gladstone a sceptical question about the proposed commercial treaty with France. In 1872-1878 Hermon had Wyfold Court built at Rotherfield Peppard near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
lieutenant is an elaborate Gothic Revival country house designed by the architect Somers Clarke.
Hermon"s only daughter was Frances Caroline Hermon (died 1929), who was married in 1877 to Robert Trotter Hodge (1851–1937), who later became Member of Parliament for Accrington and other constituencies. After being made a baronet in 1902, Hodge changed his surname to Hermon-Hodge in honour of his wife"s family, and was later ennobled as Baron Wyfold.