Colonel the Hon. Sir George Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet (8 October 1886 – 30 January 1942)[1] was an English businessman and member of the Royal Household.
In 1902 Herbert served as his father's page at the Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra, walking behind his father and carrying his coronet during the king and queen's procession.[7][8] He reached majority in 1907, marked by a large party thrown by his parents.[9]
Herbert lived in East Knoyle, at Knoyle House. He enjoyed gardening, shooting for recreation, and was a member of the Carlton Club.[23] He was the cousin of Sir Sidney Herbert, and served along with Vivian Smith as executor for his estate upon his 1939 death.[24] George Herbert was himself bequeathed £40,000, along with a life interest in the Boyton Manor estate and £50,000 for its upkeep;[24] his responsibilities as executor also included attending to a locked tin deed box, which the will requested be "destroyed unopened by cremating".[25] Herbert was also a trustee for a young Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, upon the death of his father.[26]
Herbert died suddenly on 30 January 1942 aged 55;[27] he had a heart attack while en route to Bath, Somerset and died at a nursing home in the city that his chauffeur drove him to.[13] He left an unsettled estate of £71,085 15s 2d, with net personalty £70,045 7s 10d.[28][29] After £22,075 in taxes he bequeathed £500 to Salisbury Division Conservative Association, and £250 each to a butler, gardener, chauffeur, and keeper; the remaining £41,000 he left to his mother for life, and then to the family member living at Boyton.[28] A bachelor, he left no heir to his baronetcy, which became extinct.[15]
^"East Knoyle". Local and District News. The Western Gazette. No. 9, 940. Yeovil. 10 February 1928. p. 6. Archived from the original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
