Background
His parents were Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham.
His parents were Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrix Louisa Lambton, daughter of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham.
He descends from a Russian aristocratic family, the Woronzows, through the marriage of Catherine Woronzow to George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke married Lady Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the marquesses of Anglesey) on 21 January 1904 and they had three children:
Lady Patricia Herbert (12 November 1904 – 19 March 1994);
Sidney, Lord Herbert (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969). And
The Honourable David Herbert (3 October 1908 – 3 April 1995).
During World World War II he worked at the Foreign Office.
In 1943, Lord Pembroke received an amusing letter from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador in Moscow. My Dear Reggie, In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven.
My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards.
lieutenant takes a Turk to do that. (signed) Archie.