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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsOrigins[edit]Personal life[edit]Cricket career[edit]Diplomatic career[edit]References[edit]Origins[edit]Herbert was born at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the third 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[2]) (“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 Esm\u00e9 Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith.Herbert was a younger full brother of the writer and politician Aubrey Herbert and was a younger half-brother of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the noted Egyptologist who, together with Howard Carter, discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb.[3] Mervyn travelled to Egypt for the official opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in November 1922.[4]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Personal life[edit]He was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford.[3]In 1921 he married Mary Elizabeth Willard, a daughter of Joseph E. Willard, the US ambassador to Spain, and younger sister of Belle Willard, the wife of Kermit Roosevelt, son of the former US president Theodore.[5][6] He had three children.Cricket career[edit]Herbert was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He played for Eton in the 1901 Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord’s, and in a house match at Eton that season he and George Lyttelton put on 476 for the second wicket, both scoring double centuries.[7] In the same year, he made the first of six appearances in first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire, starting off with an innings of 65 in a match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord’s.[8]Though Herbert played occasional matches for Oxford University he was not selected as a blue, and from 1903 most of his first-class cricket was for Somerset. Only in 1909 was he able to play at all regularly and in that season he made his highest first-class score, 78, in the match against Middlesex at Lord’s.[9] He also played an innings of 55 in 1909, batting at No 9 and sharing an eighth wicket partnership of 125 with Talbot Lewis that enabled Somerset to save the match against Kent, the 1909 County Champions, after following on.[10] He did not play at all after 1912 until he reappeared in one match in each of the 1922, 1923 and 1924 seasons.[11]Diplomatic career[edit]Herbert was appointed as an attache in the Foreign Office in 1907.[12] He became a third secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1910.[13] In 1916 he was further promoted to become a second secretary.[14] And then in 1919 he became a first secretary.[15] He served in embassies and delegations in Rome, Lisbon, Madrid and Cairo, and was first secretary in Madrid up to 1922, returning to a Whitehall job in the Foreign Office between 1924 and 1926.[16]He was reported in the New York Times as having died at the British Embassy in Rome of “malarial pneumonia”.[17]The Times of London reported that he was passing through Rome on his way home from Albania, where his family had extensive interests, and caught malaria that turned to pneumonia.[18]References[edit]^ Mervyn Herbert grave in St Mary’s Church churchyard, Kingston St Mary, Somerset. Gravestonephotos.com^ Per inscribed brass tablet in Brushford Church^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition. Vol.\u00a01. p.\u00a0699.^ Winstone, H.V.F. (2006). Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Rev edn). Barzan, Manchester. p.\u00a0335. ISBN\u00a01-905521-04-9. OCLC\u00a0828501310.^ “Ancestry and Descendants of Major Simon Willard”. My Genealogy \u2013 Personal Ancestry site. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ Elizabeth Herbert is cited as Belle Roosevelt’s sister in “Kermit and Belle Roosevelt Papers”. Library of Congress. Retrieved 20 June 2010.^ “Deaths in 1929”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack (1930\u00a0ed.). Wisden. p.\u00a0253.^ “Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Nottinghamshire”. www.cricketarchive.com. 1 May 1901. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ “Scorecard: Middlesex v Somerset”. www.cricketarchive.com. 22 July 1909. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ “Scorecard: Somerset v Kent”. www.cricketarchive.com. 12 August 1909. Retrieved 20 June 2010.^ “First-class Matches played by Mervyn Herbert”. www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ “No. 28065”. The London Gazette. 1 October 1907. p.\u00a06588.^ “No. 28356”. The London Gazette. 12 April 1910. p.\u00a02489.^ “No. 29822”. The London Gazette. 14 November 1916. p.\u00a010965.^ “No. 31646”. The London Gazette. 18 November 1919. p.\u00a013909.^ “Mervyn Herbert deposition at St Antony’s College, Oxford” (PDF). www.sant.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ Abstract only referenced: full text available for a fee. “Mervyn Herbert, Diplomat, is Dead”. New York Times. 28 May 1929. p.\u00a025. Retrieved 19 June 2010.^ “Obituaries: Mr Mervyn Herbert”. The Times. No.\u00a045213. London. 27 May 1929. p.\u00a016.       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