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HERRING, CHARLES, son of Charles Herring, and Emma --- (IGI); nephew of John Frederick Herring, senior, animal painter; b. 19 Aug 1825; adm. 16 Oct 1838, chorister; sang in Westminster Abbey at Coronations of Queen Victoria and Edward VII; for many years a Deputy Vicar-Choral, Saint Paul’s Cathedral; for 67 years in signwriter’s office, Barclay Perkins & Co., brewers; m. (by 1855) Louisa --- (1881 Census); d. 26 Oct 1908.

HERRING, THOMAS, son of Very Rev. William Herring DD, Dean of St. Asaph, and Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey Cotton, Organist, Norwich Cathedral; nephew of Most Rev. Thomas Herring DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1770, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1770, scholar 24 Apr 1771, matr. 1770; BA 1774; MA 1777; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1775, Major Fellow 22 Jul 1777; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1775, priest 16 Jun 1776 (both Peterborough); Vicar of North Elmham, Norfolk, from 1778; Rector of Ringstead, Norfolk 1803; m.; d. 10 May 1828.

HERRINGMAN, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

HERRINGMAN, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1725/6; in school list 1731. [Probably James Herringman, bapt. Carshalton, Surrey 24 Jul 1715, son of John Herringman and Jane --- (IGI)]

HERRINGMAN, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1728/9; left 1733. [Note John Paul Herringman, Newport, Shropshire, will proved PCC 14 Jun 1763]

Herrmann, Frank Curt Alfons, son of Frederick Heinrich Joseph Herrmann, architect, of Hampstead, and Gabriele Emily Anniela, d. of Alfons Jaffé of Boar’s Hill, Oxford; b. 18 May 1927; adm. May 1940 (B); left July 1945; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1945 but did not graduate; Faber & Faber, publishers, 1947; dir. Methuens 1959, assoc. Book Publishers 1964; man. dir. Marshall Morgan & Scott, chmn. Ward Lock & Hudsons Bookshops; FSA 1975; dir. Sotheby’s (overseas ops. ) 1980-2; founder and dir. Bloomsbury Book Auctions 1983-2005; author, The Giant Alexander 1964, and other children’s books, Sotheby’s: Portrait of an Auction House 1980, The English as Collectors: a documentary sourcebook 1972, and Low Profile: A Life in the World of Books (autobiog. ) 2002; ed., Travellers Tales 1999, and More Tales from the Travellers 2005; donated res. files to Wallace Collection 2014; m. 16 Oct. 1954 Patricia Herrmann OBE, d. of Philip Robinson of Hampstead; d. 23 Apr. 2017.

Herrmann, Luke John, brother of Frank Curt Alfons Herrmann (qv); b. 9 Mar. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left Dec. 1950; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; asst. ed. Illustrated London News 1955-8; asst. Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-67; Paul Mellon lecturer in History of British Art, Univ. of Leicester, 1967-70, sen. lecturer in the History of Art 1970-3, Prof. 1973-87, Prof. Emeritus 1987; FSA 1975; author, Ruskin and Turner 1968, British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century 1973, Turner 1975, Paul and Thomas Sandby 1986; co-author, Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill in the British Sch. at Rome Library 1992, and Nineteenth Century British Painting 2000; co-editor, Oxford Companion to Turner 2001; hon. editor, Walpole Society 1993-2003; m. 27 Feb. 1965 Georgina Herrmann OBE DPhil FBA FSA, Reader in Archaeology of Western Asia, UCL, d. of Maj. John Walker Thompson RA, of Basingstoke, Hants; d. 9 Sept. 2016.

HERSENT (or HARSNETT), PETER; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1616, adm. scholar 2 May 1617; BA 1620/1; MA 1624 (incorp. Oxford 5 Jun 1628); while an undergraduate a somewhat turbulent person, judging from an apology signed by him among the Trinity Coll. admonitions 22 Feb 1621; Librarian, Trinity Coll. 24 Sep 1625-31.

HERTSLET, HENRY CHARLES, brother of Lewis Cooke Hertslet (qv); b. 27 Dec 1817; adm. 24 May 1826; at King’s Coll. Sch. in 1832; emigrated to New Zealand 1850; m. 25 Mar 1853 Fanny, third dau. of John Orbell, Waikouaiti, New Zealand, farmer; d. at Naseby, Mount Ida, Otago, New Zealand 16 Nov 1902.