George Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis

George William Herbert, 7th Earl of Powis (4 June 1925 – 13 August 1993), was a British peer who sat in the House of Lords between 1988 and 1993.

Family and background Herbert was born on 4 June 1925. He was the eldest son of the Hon. Elaine Letitia Algitha Orde-Powlett and Rt. Rev. Percy Mark Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, Kingston, and Blackburn, who served as Clerk of the Closet. ) were Hon. David Mark Herbert (chief executive of Studio Vista), Lady Elizabeth Barbarina Herbert (wife of Maj. Hubert Robert Holden of Sibdon Castle, the High Sheriff of Shropshire), and the Hon. Andrew Clive Herbert. His maternal grandparents were William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton, and Elizabeth née Gibson, a daughter of the 1st Baron Ashbourne.

He was educated at Eton College before attending Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949. Herbert was appointed a Fellow of the Land Agents' Society

Upon the death of his bachelor second cousin, Christian Herbert (both great-grandchildren of the 2nd Earl), on 7 October 1988, he succeeded as the 7th Earl of Powis, in addition to a number of subsidiary titles including the Baron Clive of Plassey, Baron Clive of Walcot, Baron Herbert of Chirbury, Viscount Clive of Ludlow and the Baron Powis of Powis Castle. Together, they lived at Marrington Hall in Chirbury, Shropshire, and were the parents of:

John George Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis (b. 1952), who married Marijke Sofia Guther, daughter of Maarten Nanne Guther, in 1977. They have four children. Hon. Michael Clive Herbert (b. 1954), who married Susan Mary Baker, daughter of Guy Baker, in 1978.