British soldier, diplomat, traveller and intelligence officer
Colonel The Honourable
Aubrey Herbert
DL
Member of Parliament for South Somerset
In office 1911–1918
Preceded by
Sir Edward Strachey
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Yeovil
In office 1918–1923
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
George Davies
Personal details
Born
Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert
3 April 1880[1] Highclere Castle, Newbury, Berkshire
Died
23 September 1923(1923-09-23) (aged 43) London, England
Cause of death
Sepsis
Political party
Conservative
Spouse
Mary Gertrude Vesey
Children
4
Parent(s)
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon Elizabeth Catherine Howard
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
British Army
Rank
Colonel
Unit
Irish Guards
Battles/wars
World War I
Awards
Order of the White Eagle
Detail of effigy of Hon. Aubrey Herbert in the Herbert Chapel, Church of St Nicholas, Brushford, SomersetEffigy of Herbert in the Herbert Chapel, Brushford ChurchArms of Herbert: Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant argent as visible in the Herbert ChapelArms of Hon. Aubrey Herbert, of six quarters with inescutcheon of pretence of Vesey, for his wife, an heraldic heiress. Herbert Chapel, Brushford Church
Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux HerbertDL (3 April 1880 – 26 September 1923), of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal,[2][3] in Nottinghamshire,[4] was a British soldier, diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence. He was twice offered the throne of Albania.[5][6]
From 1911 until his death he was a Conservative Member of Parliament.[7] His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
^Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 698–699. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
^Per inscription on his monument in Brushford Church, Somerset
^"The Teversal estate in Nottinghamshire, formerly belonging to the Molyneux family, was brought into the Herbert family by Henrietta Howard, daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard of Greystoke, who married Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, later 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, in 1830" (Somerset Heritage Centre, Ref:DD\DRU: "HERBERT FAMILY OF PIXTON PARK, Dulverton")
^"Statesmen and M.P's". Nottshistory.org.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (Simon & Schuster, 2002) p. 405 ("[Herbert] had been offered and turned down the Crown of Albania, after Lloyd George, 'who had the imaginative but quixotic idea that the head of a Scottish clan might make an admirable leader of the mountain tribes of Albania', had proffered it twice to Aubrey Herbert, MP.")
^Jeremy Paxman, On Royalty (Penguin Books, 2007)
^"Death of Col. Aubrey Herbert". The Times. 27 September 1923. p. 13.
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