Sidney Pembroke Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke

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• Residence: England
• Baptism: 28 Mar 1853, Wilton, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1861, Wilton, Wiltshire; Age: 8; Relation: Son
• Residence: 1891, Hillingdon, Middlesex; Age: 38; Relation: Head
• Probate Date: 5 Jul 1913, London

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Died:
Age at Death: 60

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• Residence: 1861, Wilton, Wiltshire; Age: 50; Relation: Head

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Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, P.C., Baron Herbert of Lea, co. Wiltshire 1861; step-brother of 12th Earl of Pembroke.



Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, PC (16 September 1810 – 2 August 1861) was an English statesman and a close ally and confidant of Florence Nightingale.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Herbert,_1st_Baron_Herbert_of_Lea

Died:
Brighr's Disease

Sidney married Lady Herbert of Lea. Mary Elizabeth Ashe A'court Repington on 12 Aug 1846 in London. Mary (daughter of Lieut-General Charles Edward Ashe a' Court Repington and Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs) was born on 21 Jul 1822 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire; died on 30 Oct 1911 in London; was buried in Mill Hill, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1861, Wilton, Wiltshire; Age: 38; Relation: Wife
• Residence: 1881, London

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Lady Herbert of Lea. See 'Pembroke' in 'Burke's Peerage'.

Buried:
St Joseph's Missionary College

Died:
Herbert House, Belgrave Sq

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• Birth: 10 Sep 1759, St. Martin In The Fields, Westm London

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General George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery KG PC (10 September 1759 – 26 October 1827) was an English peer, army officer, and politician.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert,_11th_Earl_of_Pembroke

Died:
Pembroke House

George married Countess Catherine Semyonovna Vorontsova on 25 Jan 1808. Catherine (daughter of Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov and Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina, Countess) was born on 24 Oct 1784 in Saint Petersburg, Russia; died on 27 Mar 1856 in Islington, Shropshire; was buried in Wilton, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess Ekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsov (October 24, 1784 in Saint Petersburg – March 27, 1856 in London), sometimes spelled Woronzow, was the daughter of Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador in Britain from 1785

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Vorontsov

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• Residence: Heytesbury, Wiltshire; Marital Status: Bachelor; Marital Status: Spinster
• Residence: 1839, England
• Residence: 1851, Heytesbury, Wiltshire; Age: 67; Relation to Head of House: Visitor
• Residence: 1851, Delph, Staffordshire; Relation to Head of House: Head

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Lieut-General Charles Ashe a'Court of Amington Hall, co. Warwick, who by Royal licence 24 October 1855, took name of Repington. Died 19 April 1861. See Heytesbury in 'Burke's Peerage'.

At the time of his marriage he was Lieut.-Col. and Adjutant General to the British Forces in the Mediterranean. Succeeded to Amington Hall on the death of his brother Admiral E.H. a'Court-Repington, 1855. His eldest brother was William, 1st Baron Heytesbury, of Heytesbury, Wilts. Colonel 41st Regiment, Knight of the Guelphic Order 1818, and C.B.



See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ashe_à_Court-Repington



Extract from "The Times" dated 20 April 1861
Death of General Charles Ashe A'Court (sic) Repington CB - The colonelcy of the 41st Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of General A'Court Repington, father of Lady Herbert of Lea, who died at 5 a.m. yesterday morning, at Armington (sic) Hall, near Tamworth, after a protracted illness. General Repington was the youngest son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court, by his second marriage with Letitia, daughter of Mr. Henry Wyndham, of the College, Salisbury. he was born of the 20th of June, 1785, and married on the 10th of May, 1815, Mary the only daughter of Mr. Abraham Gibbs. The gallant General entered the army in 1801, and for the first 15 years saw much active service, having been detached on a separate command in 1806 to the Adriatic, to attack the islands of Tremitis, and in the same year assisted in the siege of Scylla. In 1807 he served in Egypt, and was present at the capture of Alexandria and in the action near Rosetta. At the siege and capture of Santa Maura he was in charge of the Quartermaster-General's Department; he was also at the siege of Capri the same year. When aide-de-campe to the Adjutant-General, when the enemy landed in Sicily in 1809 he commanded the advanced guard, to which nearly 1,000 prisoners surrendered, and he personally captured the enemies standard. The deceased General served afterwards on the Staff in Sicily, Spain, and Italy, and was present at Tarragons, action of Villa Franca, and retreat thence; subsequently, at the occupation of Leghorn, capture of Genoa, siege of Savona, and lastly at the surrender of Naples in 1815. the late General was for some time one of the Poor Law Commissioners. In 1818 he was made a Knight of the Hanoverian Order in recognition of his military services, and in 1831 was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was also a Knight of St. Ferdinand and Merit of Naples, and a Knight of St. Maurice and Lazare of Sardinia. In February, 1848, he was appointed Colonel of the 41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot, which by his death becomes at the disposal of the Commander-in- Chief. His commissions bear date as follow (sic) :-Ensign, December 17, 1801; Lieutenant, September 2, 1802; Captain, July 25, 1804; Major, February 22, 1811; Lieutenant-Colonel, May 19, 1813; Colonel, July 22, 1830; Major- General, November 23, 1841; Lieutenant-General, November 11, 1851; and General, February 20, 1856

Charles married Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs on 10 May 1815 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Mary (daughter of Abraham Gibbs, of Palermo and Mary Elizabeth Douglas) was born on 11 Oct 1793 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy; died on 21 Jan 1878 in 29 Lowndes Street, Chelsea, London; was buried in Woking, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1851, Delph, Staffordshire; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1861, Amington, Warwickshire

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Only child. Died 21 January 1878, buried in Woking Cemetery.

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• Occupation: Between 1785 and 1806, London; Russian Ambassador to UK

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Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (26 June 1744 – 9 July 1832) was a Russian diplomat from the aristocratic Russian Vorontsov family.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Vorontsov

Buried:
Pembroke Family Vault

Semyon married Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina, Countess. Ekaterina (daughter of Alexei Seniavene and Anna Heinrichovna Von Bradké) was born in 1755 in Russia; died in 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court, 1st Baronet (c. 1747 – 22 July 1817) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament (MP).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_à_Court,_1st_Baronet

William married Letitia Wyndham in 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 10 Sep 1758, Topsham, Devon

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Abraham Gibbs, Esq., of Palermo, merchant. Died 15 July 1816 at Palermo and buried there.

In business in Italy and Sicily from 1775 till he died; at Leghorn at least till 1788; later at Palermo where he traded under the style of Gibbs & Co., with a branch at Naples. He was Banker to the Court of the Two Sicilies at Naples, Consul at Palermo for the U.S. of America, Paymaster to the British Forces in the Mediterranean. A friend of Admiral Lord Nelson and agent for the management of his estates at Bronte, Sicily, and after his death to his brother and successor, Earl Nelson, D.D. A letter from Lord Nelson to Abraham which is preserved in the Aldenham collection of Family letters, is printed in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs and there are more letters from Nelson to him in published collections of Nelson's letters and many references to him in letters from Nelson to others (see Additions of 1927 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). Abraham died by suicide in his house in Palermo, and his firm, which had hitherto prospered well, was liquidated by his nephew and partner, William H. Gibbs, Portrait, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Abraham married Mary Elizabeth Douglas in Aug 1790 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Mary (daughter of Sir James Douglas, of Faringdon and Isobel Douglas) was born on 10 Sep 1753 in England; died on 4 Mar 1797 in Naples, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 7 May 1772
• Baptism: 10 May 1772, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

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3rd daughter of Sir James Douglas of Faringdon, Berkshire, British Consul at Naples. She was under 18 on 2 March 1787. Died 4 March 1797.

There is an abstract of Sir J. Douglas's will proved 1795 in the 'Aldenham Genealogical Collections'.