Richard Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell

"A Lord-in-Waiting", caricature by WHO in Vanity Fair, 1910. Richard Farrer Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell (22 May 1878 – 14 October 1929), was a British Liberal politician.

Background and early life Herschell was the only son of the Lord Chancellor, Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, and his wife Agnes Adela (née Kindersley), and succeeded in the barony in 1899.

Political career He was private secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl of Aberdeen He died in October 1929, aged 51, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Rognvald. Lady Herschell died in 1961. In 1917, he was promoted within the same Order to be a Knight Commander (KCVO). In the 1919 New Year Honours, he was promoted again to be a Knight Grand Cross (GCVO).

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