George Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis
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4 June 1925
The Earl of Powis | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| In office 7 October 1988 – 13 August 1993 | |
| Preceded by | The 6th Earl of Powis |
| Succeeded by | The 8th Earl of Powis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | George William Herbert 4 June 1925 |
| Died | 13 August 1993 (aged 68) |
George William Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis (4 June 1925 – 13 August 1993), was a British peer who sat in the House of Lords between 1988 and 1993.
Herbert was born on 4 June 1925. He was the eldest son of the Hon. Elaine Letitia Algitha Orde-Powlett and Rt. Rev. Percy Mark Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, Kingston, and Blackburn, who served as Clerk of the Closet.[1] Among his younger siblings (who were granted the rank of earl's children in 1991[2]) were Hon. David Mark Herbert (chief executive of Studio Vista),[3] Lady Elizabeth Barbarina Herbert (wife of Maj. Hubert Robert Holden of Sibdon Castle, the High Sheriff of Shropshire),[4] and the Hon. Andrew Clive Herbert.[5][6]
His paternal grandparents were Sybella Augusta Herbert (née Milbank) and Major General the Hon. William Henry Herbert, Mayor of Shrewsbury (and younger son of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, and Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis).[7] His maternal grandparents were William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton, and Elizabeth née Gibson, a daughter of the 1st Baron Ashbourne.[8]
He was educated at Eton College before attending Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949.[1]
Career
Between school and university, Herbert served in the Rifle Brigade from 1943, during the Second World War, until demobilised in 1947.[9] Herbert was appointed a Fellow of the Land Agents' Society[1] and of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and worked as a land agent on estates in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk before returning to Shropshire in 1970 to farm his estate in Chirbury,[9] described as "straddling the Welsh border" and "let his cottages in Chirbury at low rents, safeguarding the village school, and led an appeal to restore the parish church."[10]
Upon the death of his bachelor second cousin, Christian Herbert (both great-grandchildren of the 2nd Earl), on 7 October 1988,[11] he succeeded as the 7th Earl of Powis, in addition to a number of subsidiary titles including the Baron Clive of Plassey, Baron Clive of Walcot, Baron Herbert of Chirbury, Viscount Clive of Ludlow and the Baron Powis of Powis Castle.[1]