Edward Herbert, 5th Earl of Powis

Edward Robert Henry Herbert, 5th Earl of Powis CBE TD (19 May 1889 – 15 January 1974)

Early life Herbert was born on 19 May 1889. He was the son of Col. Edward William Herbert and Beatrice Anne Williamson. Among his siblings, who were later granted the rank of earl's children, Lady Dorothy Marguerite Elizabeth Herbert (wife of Hon. Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, son of Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton), Lady Phyllis Hedworth Camilla Herbert (wife of Martin Drummond Vesey Holt of Holt's Military Banking family), and Christian Victor Charles Herbert (later the 6th Earl of Powis). His maternal grandparents were Sir Hedworth Williamson, 8th Baronet and Lady Elizabeth Liddell (a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth). was attached to the Tank Corps Training Centre, and fought in the Iraqi revolt of 1920. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration and was appointed Commander of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

Personal life On 12 March 1932, Herbert was married to Ella Mary Rathborne (1890-1987), a daughter of Col. William Hans Rathborne of Scripplestown, County Dublin, and Bella Grace MacNeale.