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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.

HERTSLET, LEWIS COOKE, son of Lewis Hertslet, Great College Street, Westminster, Librarian and Keeper of Papers, Foreign Office, and his first wife Hannah Harriet Jemima, dau. of George Cooke, Westminster; b. 2 Nov 1812; adm. 26 May 1823; Chief Clerk to Commissioner of Sewers, London; m. 19 Dec 1837 Mary Anne, eldest sister of George Tupman Fincham (qv); d. 2 May 1875.

HERTSLET, WILLIAM JAMES, brother of Lewis Cooke Hertslet (qv); b. 29 Feb 1816; adm. 8 Apr 1825; HBM Vice-Consul at Memel, Prussia 18 Sep 1835; HBM Consul at Königsberg, Prussia, from 7 Jun 1856; m. 29 Jan 1839 Emma Wilhelmina, dau. of Daniel Holzendorf, Memel; d. at Königsberg, Prussia 12 Jan 1885.

Hertz, Ernest Stewart, son of Jacob Hertz, of Sutton, Surrey, by Caroline, daughter of James Stewart, of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire; b. April 5, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left July 1907; engaged in farming in Norfolk; served in France in Great War I as trans­port officer Lieut. 16th Batt. West Yorks Regt.; severely wounded at Lens Dec. 22, 1917; Chevalier de l'Ordre de Merite Agricole; general sales manager Charlesworth, Peebles and Co., electrical engineers, London and Glasgow; m. Jan. 21, 1914, Minnie Victoria, daughter of Charles Synden; d. 1967.