The Right Reverend Percy Mark Herbert (24 April 1885 – 22 January 1968) was the first Bishop of Blackburn from 1927 then

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from 1942 to 1959. He was the

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from 1942–63. An active

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, he was Provincial Grand Master for

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Early life

Percy was the second son of Sybella Augusta ( Milbank) Herbert and Maj.-Gen. Hon. William Henry Herbert, the Mayor of Shrewsbury who lived at Winsley Hall, Shrewsbury. His elder brother, Henry James Herbert, died unmarried in 1911.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, U.S.A.:

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2684. His paternal grandparents were

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and the former Lady Lucy Graham (a daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose). His maternal grandparents were Mark William Vane Milbank (grandson of

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) and Barbarina Sophia Farquhar (a daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet). Herbert was educated at Rugby and

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, graduating in 1907. He later earned a

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from Trinity College in 1922.

Career

After he was ordained in 1909, he served for a period as

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to his old school until 1915 before he was appointed

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of St George's,

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, and

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of the ''Trinity Cambridge Mission'' until 1922, additionally serving as

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of the area from 1918. In 1921 he was appointed

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and served as Chaplain to King

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between 1921 and 1922. He was

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and Bishop Suffragen of Kingston-upon-Thames between 1922 and 1926. He held the office of Bishop of Norwich between 1942 and 1959, where he presided over a number of prominent weddings, including Lady Anne Coke and Colin Tennant in 1956. After retiring from his post as Bishop of Norwich, Herbert became Rector of St Mary Magdalene's Church in

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. It was at that church in 1961 where he baptised

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(later Princess of Wales). He was

to King

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from 1942 to 1952 and then to Queen

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from 1952 to 1963. He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order in 1954.

Personal life

On 19 September 1922, he had married Hon. Elaine Letitia Algitha Orde-Powlett, daughter of

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and the former Hon. Elizabeth Gibson (a daughter of

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). Together, they had four children (who were granted the rank of earl's children in 1991): * George William Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis (1925–1993), who married Hon. Katharine Odeyne de Grey, daughter of Lt.-Col.

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and Hyacinth Lambart Bouwens, in 1949. * Hon. David Mark Herbert (1927–1996), chief executive of

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who married Monica Brenda Swann, daughter of Laurence Edmund Swann, in 1955. * Lady Elizabeth Barbarina Herbert (b. 1928), who married Maj. Hubert Robert Holden, the

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and son of Robert Millington Holden, in 1948. * Hon. Andrew Clive Herbert (1933–2000), who married Carol Mae Charlton, daughter of John Charlton, in 1963. They divorced in 1971 and he married Edith Ann Dominguez, daughter of Aelxander Dominguez, in 1983. Above all "a pastoral bishop", he died at the

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in London, aged 82.''The Rt Rev P. M. Herbert (Obituaries)''

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Tuesday, 23 January 1968; p. 10; Issue 57156; col G Through his eldest son, he is a grandfather of John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis.

References

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