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Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (15 April 1822 – 7 October 1876) was a

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officer and

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politician.

Background and education

Herbert was born at

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, near

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, the second son of

Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, Knight of the Garter, KG (22 March 1785 – 17 January 1848), styled Viscount Clive between 1804 and 1839, was a British peer and Tory (British political party), Tory politician. He was the grandson of Cliv ...

, grandson of

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. His mother was Edward's wife Lady Lucy Graham, third daughter of

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. He was educated at Eton and the

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Military and political careers

Herbert was made an

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in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Light Infantry in January 1840, serving with them in the war on the

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(1851–53), the Orange River Boers expedition, and the

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. He rose to

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on 7 September 1841,

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on 19 June 1846,

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on 27 May and lieutenant-colonel on 28 May 1853. Herbert entered politics when he was returned for

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, uncontested, in February 1854, holding the seat until he resigned in September 1860. He continued to serve in the army, being appointed assistant quartermaster-general of Sir De Lacy Evans's division of the army of the East. He landed in the

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in this staff position, receiving major wounds at the Battle of the Alma and the siege of Sevastopol and also serving at the

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. He took over from Sir Richard Airey as quartermaster-general of the whole British army force from when Airey returned to England until the evacuation of the Crimea. For his services in the

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he was made an aide-de-camp to

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, a Companion of the

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(CB) and a colonel (as a

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, on 28 November 1854), and also received

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s from the Turkish, Sardinian and French governments. On 19 February 1858 Herbert was made lieutenant-colonel of the 82nd (Prince of Wales's) Foot, joining that regiment at

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on 21 April 1858. He commanded the regiment's left wing in the

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campaign (being present at the capture of

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and

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) and then the

and Fatehpur districts until spring 1859, as well as being sent to pursue Firuz Shah and a body of rebels on the banks of the river Jumna in December 1858. In September 1860 he left Parliament to become deputy quartermaster-general at the Horse Guards. He re-entered Parliament in April 1865 as Conservative MP for

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, holding the seat until February 1874. From 1865 to 1867 assistant quartermaster-general at

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. In March 1867 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed

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Conservative administration, in which post he remained until December 1868, the last year under the premiership of

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. He was promoted to major-general in January 1868, was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1869, and ultimately promoted

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in September 1875.

Marriage and issue

Herbert married Lady Mary Caroline Louisa Petty-Fitzmaurice, the only child of

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, on 4 October 1860. They had four children: *Henry Herbert (28 June 1861 – 8 August 1865). *

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(1862–1952), married the Honourable Violet Lane-Fox. *Magdalen Herbert (28 July 1864 – 27 October 1957). *Margaret Augusta Herbert (d. 7 July 1952), married Thomas Richard Cholmondeley (b. 1856, d. 7 Feb 1922).thepeerage.com Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert
/ref> Herbert died at The Styche,

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, in October 1876, aged 54, and was buried at

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. Lady Mary Herbert survived her husband by over 50 years and died in September 1927.

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