marquesses of Anglesey
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). His ancestor, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, married Countess Catherine Vorontsov, the daughter of a prominent aristocratic Russian family.Woronzow HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count
Semyon Vorontsov
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, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.
Pembroke was educated at Eton and
Pembroke College, Oxford
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. He served in World War II in the
Royal Artillery
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. He was Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as
Equerry
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to the
Duke of Kent
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. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery, 1942–1949 and 1953–1960; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, 1944–1958; Member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1941–1958. President of Historic Churches Trust. Justice of the Peace, 1954.
Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of the English county of Wiltshire. From 1750, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Wiltshire.
Lord Lieutenants of Wiltshire
* William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 1 ...
, 1954–1969, and an
alderman
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of
Wiltshire County Council
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, 1954–1967. PEMBROKE, 16th Earl of ', in ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 September 2009
On 27 July 1936 he married Lady Mary Dorothea Hope, daughter of the late
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
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Earl of Pembroke
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Earl of Montgomery
The title Earl of Montgomery (pronounced "Mun-''gum''-ery") was created in the Peerage of England in 1605 for Sir Philip Herbert, younger son of the 2nd Earl of Pembroke. The first Earl inherited the Earldom of Pembroke in 1630 from his broth ...