Ancestral Trails 2016 » Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux HERBERT (1880-1923)

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• Hij is geboren op 3 april 1880 in Highclere Castle, Highclere, Hampshire.
• Hij is overleden op 26 september 1923 in Portland Place, Marylebone, Middlesex, hij was toen 43 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven oktober 1923 in Brushford, Somerset.
• Een kind van Henry Howard Molyneux HERBERT en Elizabeth Catherine HOWARD

Gezin van Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux HERBERT

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Gertrude VESEY.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 oktober 1910 te St James, Westminster, Middlesex, hij was toen 30 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Anne Brigit Dominica HERBERT  1914-2005
2. (Niet openbaar)
3. Gabriel Mary Hermione HERBERT  1911-
4. Auberon Mark Henry Yves HERBERT  1922-1974

Notities over Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux HERBERT

Issue: Gabriel Mary Hermione, Anne Brigit Dominica, Laura Laetitia Gwendolyn Evelyn, Auberon Mark Henry Yves Herbert

Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert DL (3 April 1880 - 26 September 1923), of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal, in Nottinghamshire, was a British soldier, diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence. He was twice offered the throne of Albania. From 1911 until his death he was a Conservative Member of Parliament. His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), the famous Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, who predeceased him by five months, by legend due to the "curse of the pharaohs". He suffered during most of his life from poor eyesight and was almost blind by his early 40s.

Origins
Aubrey Herbert was born at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the second son of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, a wealthy landowner, British cabinet minister, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His mother (his father's second wife and cousin) was Elizabeth Catherine Howard (1856-1929) ("Elsie"), a daughter of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland, a son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. Elizabeth Howard's brother was Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith.

Aubrey Herbert was a younger half-brother of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the noted Egyptologist who in 1922, together with Howard Carter, discovered Tutankhamen's tomb. From early childhood Aubrey was afflicted with eye problems which left him nearly blind, and resulted in a total loss of sight before the age of 40.

Early life
Herbert was educated at Eton College. He obtained a first class degree in modern history from Balliol College, Oxford. He was famous for climbing the roofs of the university buildings, despite his near blindness. He numbered among his friends Adrian Carton De Wiart, Raymond Asquith, John Buchan, and Hilaire Belloc. Reginald Farrer remained close throughout his life. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry Cavalry on 12 January 1900, and promoted to lieutenant on 11 June 1902. His poor eyesight, however, prevented him from taking part in the South African War. Herbert received as a gift from his father the estate of Pixton Park in Somerset, with 5,000 acres of land, inherited by the Herbert family from Elizabeth Kitty Acland, wife of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon.

His friendship with Middle Eastern traveller and advisor Sir Mark Sykes dates from his entry into parliament in 1911 when, with George Lloyd, they were the three youngest Conservative MPs. They shared an interest in foreign policy and worked closely in the Arab Bureau (1916). He was also a close friend of T. E. Lawrence; their letters do not feature in the standard Lawrence collections, but are quoted by Margaret Fitzherbert in her biography of her grandfather, The Man Who Was Greenmantle.

Languages and travels
Herbert was in his own right a considerable Orientalist, and a linguist who spoke French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and Albanian as well as English. A renowned traveller, especially in the Middle East, his trips include journeys through Japan, Yemen, Turkey, and Albania. Herbert often dressed as a tramp on his travels. During the period 1902-04, he was an honorary attaché in Tokyo, then in Constantinople (1904-05). He was much more interested in the Middle East than in the Far East.

Albania
Herbert became a passionate advocate of Albanian independence, having visited the country in 1907, 1911, and 1913. During a stay in Tirana (1913), he befriended Essad Pasha. When the Albanian delegates to the 1912-13 London Balkan Peace Conference arrived, they secured Herbert's assistance as an advisor. He was very actively fighting for their cause and is regarded as having considerable influence on Albania's success at obtaining eventual independence in the resulting Treaty of London (1913). One of his constant correspondents on Albania was Edith Durham. He was twice offered the throne of Albania. On the first occasion in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, he was interested, but Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, a family friend, dissuaded him. The offer remained unofficial and was rejected by the Foreign Office. The Albanian crown went to William of Wied.

The second occasion the crown was offered was after the defeat of the Italian Army by the Albanians in September 1920. Again the offer was unofficial, although it was made on behalf of the Albanian Government. Herbert discussed the offer with Philip Kerr and Maurice Hankey, pursuing the idea of perhaps acting under the banner of the League of Nations; Eric Drummond, Herbert's friend, had become its first secretary general, and by lobbying led to Albania's acceptance as a member in the League of Nations in December 1920. With a change of foreign ministers in the Albanian Government, Herbert's chance of gaining a crown greatly diminished. In April 1921, the crown was, even more unofficially, offered to the Duke of Atholl by Jim Barnes of the British Friends of Albania residing in Italy.

Parliament
Herbert was an independent-minded Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 to his death. Always an advocate of the rights of smaller nations, he opposed the British Government's Irish policy.

From his mother Elsie Howard he inherited Villa Alta Chiara (an Italian rendering of "Highclere", the English seat of the Earldom) at Portofino in Italy, inherited by her from, and built in 1874 by, her husband and Aubrey's father the 4th Earl. It had been a favoured retreat of Aubrey's elder brother the 5th Earl, but following their father's death it became the property of his step-mother Elsie Howard, who died there, having frequently entertained "eminent folks from the world of politics, religion (mainly Catholic, of course) and science". Aubrey declared: "if a man can have a second country, Italy is my second country". Aubrey bequeathed the Villa to his wife Mary Vesey, and it later became "a veritable literary colony for poets, painters and writers", including their son-in-law Evelyn Waugh, Alfred Duggan, Peter Acton and Brooke Astor.

Marriage and progeny
Aubrey Herbert married his distant cousin, the Hon. Mary Gertrude Vesey (1889-1970), "striking looking with a ferocious temper", only child and sole heiress of John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci (1844-1903), eldest son and heir of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci (d. 1875) by his wife Lady Emma Herbert (1819-1884) youngest daughter of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. The 4th Viscount was a member of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, but together with his wife had converted to Roman Catholicism and the couple raised their children in that faith. Herbert's mother-in-law (Lady Evelyn Charteris, eldest daughter of Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss) gave the family a fine house in London. By his wife he had four children, one son and three daughters:

Auberon Mark Henry Yvo Molyneux Herbert (25 April 1922 - 21 July 1974), only son and heir, who inherited his father's Pixton Park and Portofino properties. Died unmarried.
Gabriel Mary Hermione Herbert (29 September 1911), eldest daughter, who married Major Alexander Dru.
(Anne) Bridget Domenica Herbert (22 February 1914 - 8 July 2005), who married (as his second wife) Major Allister Edward Grant (1892-1947), MC, "Eddie", of Nutcombe Manor, Clayhanger, Tiverton, Devon, a steeplechase rider who had twice broken his neck riding in the Grand National, later a publisher, son of Sir Charles Grant and grandson of Sir Robert Grant, MP. She was "the most down-to-earth by far of all the Herberts" and after her husband's early death devoted herself to farming.
Laura Laetitia Gwendolen Evelyn Herbert (21 June 1916), who in 1937 married (as his second wife) the novelist Evelyn Waugh, whom she had met at Portofino, as a guest of her sister Gabriel. Waugh's first wife, from whom he was divorced, was Evelyn Gardner, a half first-cousin of Laura and Auberon, and a niece of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon. The marriage was opposed by her brother Auberon. She was the mother of the journalist Auberon Waugh (1939-2001) (born at Pixton and named after his maternal uncle) and the grandmother of Daisy Waugh and Alexander Waugh.

Death and burial
Toward the end of Herbert's life, he became totally blind. He received very bad medical advice which persuaded him to have all his teeth extracted to help restore his sight. The dental operation resulted in blood poisoning from which he died in London on 26 September 1923. This was five months after the death of his elder half-brother, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the famous Egyptologist, said by legend to have died from the "curse of Tutankhamun", whose tomb he had discovered five months earlier. In 1924 Herbert's estate was valued for probate at £49,970 (equivalent to about £2,563,461 in 2016). His full-length recumbent effigy on a chest tomb with ceremonial sword above, survives in the Herbert Chapel in the Church of St Nicholas, Brushford, Somerset, near his seat at Pixton Park. Above it on decoratively sculpted wooden panelling are displayed six heraldic shields describing his ancestry and marriage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Herbert

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