11 Facts About Mervyn Herbert

The Honourable Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux Herbert of Tetton, Kingston St Mary in Somerset, was a career diplomat and a first-class cricket player.

Mervyn Herbert's mother was Elizabeth Catherine Howard, a daughter of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland, a son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.

Mervyn Herbert travelled to Egypt for the official opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922.

Mervyn Herbert was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford.

Mervyn Herbert played for Eton in the 1901 Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's, and in a house match at Eton that season he and George Lyttelton put on 476 for the second wicket, both scoring double centuries.

Mervyn Herbert played an innings of 55 in 1909, batting at No 9 and sharing an eighth wicket partnership of 125 with Talbot Lewis that enabled Somerset to save the match against Kent, the 1909 County Champions, after following on.

Mervyn Herbert did not play at all after 1912 until he reappeared in one match in each of the 1922,1923 and 1924 seasons.

Mervyn Herbert was appointed as an attache in the Foreign Office in 1907.

Mervyn Herbert became a third secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1910.

Mervyn Herbert served in embassies and delegations in Rome, Lisbon, Madrid and Cairo, and was first secretary in Madrid up to 1922, returning to a Whitehall job in the Foreign Office between 1924 and 1926.

Mervyn Herbert was reported in the New York Times as having died at the British Embassy in Rome of "malarial pneumonia".