Heppel, George; son of George Hastings Heppel, Mansion House Street, London, fruiterer, and Louisa, dau. of John Corner, London, engraver ; b. 21 Oct 1830 ; ed. King’s Coll. School, London, and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1849, matr.Mich.1849 ; BA and 33rd Wrangler 1853 ; MA 1857 ; Principal, Nelson Coll., New Zealand ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) Sep – Dec 1862 ; schoolmaster, resident in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset (1871 Census) ; living latterly in Ealing, Middlesex ; private tutor (1881 Census, 1891 Census, 1901 Census) ; author, Arithmetic for the use of Schools, 1864, and other textbooks on mathematics ; m. at Nelson, New Zealand 1 Jan 1861 Catherine, elder dau. of George Richard Corner FSA, Southwark, Surrey, solicitor ; d. 19 Dec 1908.
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HERBERT, ---; b.; in school lists 1732-6 (“left Midsummer, pays”).
HERBERT, ALEXANDER, third son of Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart. , Tintern, Monmouthshire, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I, and his first wife Lucia, dau. of Sir William Alexander, Gentleman Usher to Charles I; bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 13 Dec 1641; at school under Busby; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 21 Jun 1659, aged about 20 (Busby’s name is not mentioned in the TCD admission register, which records that he was educated by “Mr. Gregory, Westminster, and Hill, Dublin”, “Mr. Gregory” evidently referring to Francis Gregory (qv), an Usher in the early 1650s); buried St. Crux, Fossgate, York 29 Jan 1668/9.
Herbert, Aubrey, brother of Jesse Basil Herbert (qv); b. 16 Oct. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left July 1924; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1924, Pres. of the Union 1928, BA 1928, MA 1962; education officer BBC 1933-41; dir. of programmes Malaya Broadcasting Corpn 1941-2; officer in charge propaganda broadcasting Colombo 1942-6; foreign correspondent India 1950-3; chief agent Liberal Party 1945, contested (Lib.) Parly elections between 1929 and 1966; West Suffolk CC 1955-70, county alderman 1970-4, Suffolk CC 1974; OBE Jan. 1978; m. 1st 28 Apr. 1929 Phyllis Irene, d. of Ernest James Haylor, draper, of Oxford; 2dn Ruth Crisp, d. of Sir Thomas Crisp English (qv); d. 20 Nov. 1981.
Herbert, Christopher Reginald Courtenay, son of Arthur Stewart Herbert of Cahirane, Co. Kerry, and Lady Theresa Selina, d. of Col. Gerald Edmund Boyle and sister of Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork & Orrery GCB GCVO; b. 23 Mar. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left Dec. 1923; a stockbroker; m. 4 Sept. 1939 Celia Winifred, d. of Christopher Foulis Roundell CBE; PO RAFVR Nov. 1940, killed in action June 1941.
Christopher Reginald Courtenay Herbert was born at Montreux, Switzerland on the 23rd of March 1906 the younger son of Arthur Stewart Herbert, a director of the North London Railway, and Lady Theresa Selina (nee Boyle) Herbert of 6, Grosvenor Hill, Willow Lane, Wimbledon in South London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1920 to December 1923. On leaving school he worked as a solicitor in the City of London and later became a Partner. He achieved a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 16073) at the Airwork School of Flying, Heston on the 27th of July 1938 while flying an Avro Club Cadet aircraft. He was married at Paddington, London on the 4th of September 1939 to Celia Winifred (nee Roundel) and they lived at 8, Pelham Place, Kensington.
He enlisted as an Aircraftman 2nd Class in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve at the Uxbridge Depot where he trained as a pilot and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 30th of November 1940, with seniority from the 10th of November 1940.
On the night of the 26th/27th of June 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 30 Hampdens and 14 Wellingtons for an operation on Dusseldorf. The results of the bombing were not able to be observed.
Christopher Herbert and his crew took off from RAF Newton at 11.05pm on the 26th of June 1941 in Wellington Mk IC R1644 JN-L for the operation. The aircraft was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed on farmland on the west bank of the River Maas near Grubbenvorst, 14 miles due north of Venlo, at 4am with the loss of the entire crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer John Winston Sievers RNZAF DFC (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Christopher Reginald Courenay Herbert (2nd Pilot)
Pilot Officer Alan George St John Ross (Observer)
Sergeant Hector George Burgess (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant William John Grieve (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Francis Joseph Hart RCAF (Air Gunner)
Theirs was the only aircraft lost during the operation.
His wife received the following telegram dated the 19th of July 1941: - “Further information received through the International Red Cross states that your husband Pilot Officer Reginald Courtney Herbert previously reported missing is now reported missing but believed to have lost his life as the result of air operations. Any further information received will be immediately communicated to you. Letter confirming this telegram follows.”
Four of the crew’s bodies were found in the wreckage of the aircraft with two more being found a few hundred yards away. One of these had tried to bail out as his parachute was found near his body and was open.
The crew was buried at Ehrenfriedhof Cemetery, Venlo but their bodies were later exhumed by No. 5 Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Unit and were moved to their present location.
He is commemorated on a plaque in the Protestant Church at Killarney, Co. Kerry and on a memorial window at the King Henry VII Chapel, which was unveiled on the 10th of July 1947. .
He is buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 3, Row H, Grave 3.
HERBERT, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1717; in under school list 1720.
HERBERT, GEORGE, fourth son of Sir Richard Herbert, Kt, Montgomery Castle, Montgomeryshire, and Magdalen, dau. of Sir Richard Newport, Kt; b. 3 Apr 1593; adm. in twelfth year; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1608, adm. scholar 1609, matr. 18 Dec 1609; 2nd in “ordo” 1612/3; BA 1612/3; MA 1616; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1614, Major Fellow 15 Mar 1615/6 – c. 1621 [check]; Praelector in Rhetoric and Deputy Public Orator 1618, Public Orator 1619-27; ordained deacon by Jul 1626, priest (Salisbury) 19 Sep 1630; Prebendary of Lincoln from 8 Jul 1626; Herbert had earlier aspired to preferment in service of the State, but after forming an intimate friendship with Nicholas Ferrar (of Little Gidding), he decided to eschew the “painted pleasures of the Court”; Rector of Fugglestone with Bemerton, Wilts., from 26 Apr 1630; repaired Bemerton Church and rebuilt the parsonage, where he wrote his famous sacred poems, edited by Ferrar and published posthumously under the title The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, 1633; m. 5 Mar 1628/9 Jane, dau. of Charles Danvers, Baynton, Wilts.; d. 3 Mar 1632/3. Memorial window in baptistery, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
HERBERT, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 16) Feb 1717/8.
HERBERT, HENRY, 2ND BARON HERBERT OF CHERBURY, only child of Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, and Anne, dau. of John Ramsey, Alderman, City of London; b.; at school under Knipe; his “unsufferable negligence” and “childishness” complained of by Knipe in a letter to Herbert’s father of 19 Sep 1696 (Warner, Epistolary Curiosities, 1818, 163-5); MP Bewdley 1708 – 22 Jan 1708/9; succeeded father as 2nd Baron Herbert of Cherbury 22 Jan 1708/9; an ardent Whig politician, who spent more than he could afford on electoral contests; m. 12 Dec 1709 Mary, dau. of John Wallop, Farley, Hampshire, and sister of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth; d. 19 Apr 1738. DNB.