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'''Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery''' [[Commander of the Royal Victorian Order|CVO]] (9 January 1906 &ndash; 16 March 1969)<ref>[http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal38256 Royal Genealogical Data page]</ref> was a British peer.
==Life and career==
Herbert was the son of [[Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke]] and Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the [[Marquess of Anglesey|marquesses of Anglesey]]).<ref>Lundy, Darryl. [http://thepeerage.com/p4351.htm#i43510 Sidney Charles Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke], Thepeerage.com, accessed 23 May 2012</ref> His ancestor, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, married Countess [[Catherine Vorontsov]], the daughter of a prominent aristocratic Russian family.<ref name=Vorontsov>[http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Herbert/woronzow.html Woronzow], HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count [[Semyon Vorontsov]], the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.</ref>
Pembroke was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Pembroke College, Oxford]]. He served in World War II in the [[Royal Artillery]]. He was Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as [[Equerry]] to the [[Duke of Kent]]. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery, 1942–1949 and 1953–1960; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, 1944–1958; Member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1941–1958. President of Historic Churches Trust. [[Justice of the Peace]], 1954. [[Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire]], 1954&ndash;1969, and an [[alderman]] of [[Wiltshire County Council]], 1954&ndash;1967.<ref>''[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U50482 PEMBROKE, 16th Earl of]'', in ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 September 2009</ref>
On 27 July 1936 he married Lady Mary Dorothea Hope, daughter of the late [[John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow]] and the [[Hersey, Marchioness of Linlithgow|Dowager Marchioness of Linlithgow]]. The couple had two children: Lady Diana Mary Herbert (19 April 1937 &ndash; 24 November 2008) and [[Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke|Henry George Charles Herbert]] (19 May 1939 &ndash; 7 October 2003). He was succeeded by his son.
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| before = [[Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset|The Duke of Somerset]]
| title  = [[Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire]]
| years  = 1954&ndash;1969
| after  = [[John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale|The Lord Margadale]]}}
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| title  = [[Earl of Pembroke]]<br />[[Earl of Montgomery]]
| before = [[Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 12th Earl of Montgomery|Reginald Herbert]]
| after  = [[Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke|Henry Herbert]]
| years  = 1960&ndash;1969}}
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