Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke


Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery was a British peer. 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 on 21 January 1904 and they had four children:
Pembroke was succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son.
During World War II he worked at the Foreign Office, in which capacity he was the addressee of an often-reproduced humorous note sent by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr.

Ancestry