Mervyn Herbert

Mervyn Herbert
Mervyn Herbert
Personal information
Full name Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux Herbert
Born 27 December 1882(1882-12-27)
Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England
Died 26 May 1929(1929-05-26) (aged 46)
Rome, Italy
Batting style Right-handed
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
Years Team
1901–02 Nottinghamshire
1902–04 Oxford University
1903–24 Somerset
First-class debut 1 May 1901 Nottinghamshire v MCC
Last First-class 30 May 1924 Somerset v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 42
Runs scored 854
Batting average 12.02
100s/50s –/3
Top score 78
Balls bowled 18
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 0/28
Catches/stumpings 18/–
Source: CricketArchive, 19 June 2010

The Honourable Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux Herbert (27 December 1882 – 26 May 1929) was a career diplomat and a first-class cricket player. He was born at Highclere Castle, Hampshire and he died at the British Embassy, Rome.

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Family and education

Herbert was the third son of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, the full brother of the writer and politician Aubrey Herbert and the half-brother of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who financed the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.[1] He married Mary Elizabeth Willard, daughter of Joseph Willard, the US ambassador to Spain, in 1921 and had three children. His wife's older sister married Kermit Roosevelt, son of the former US president Theodore.[2][3]

He was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford.[1]

Cricket career

Herbert was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He 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.[4] In the same year, he made the first of six appearances in first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire, starting off with an innings of 65 in a match against the MCC at Lord's.[5]

Though Herbert played occasional matches for Oxford University he was not selected as a blue, and from 1903 most of his first-class cricket was for Somerset. Only in 1909 was he able to play at all regularly and in that season he made his highest first-class score, 78, in the match against Middlesex at Lord's.[6] He also 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.[7] He did not play at all after 1912 until he reappeared in one match in each of the 1922, 1923 and 1924 seasons.[8]

Diplomatic career

Herbert was appointed as an attache in the Foreign Office in 1907.[9] He became a third secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1910.[10] In 1916 he was further promoted to become a second secretary.[11] And then in 1919 he became a first secretary.[12] He 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.[13] He was reported in the New York Times as having died at the British Embassy in Rome of "malarial pneumonia".[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Herbert". www.thepeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p20564.htm#i205632. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  2. ^ "Ancestry and Descendants of Major Simon Willard". My Genealogy - Personal Ancestry site. http://www.willardgenealogy.com/pafp/pafg41.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  3. ^ Elizabeth Herbert is cited as Belle Roosevelt's sister in "Kermit and Belle Roosevelt Papers". Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/roosek_b.html. Retrieved 2010-06-20. 
  4. ^ "Deaths in 1929". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1930 ed.). Wisden. p. 253. 
  5. ^ "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Nottinghamshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1901-05-01. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5606.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  6. ^ "Scorecard: Middlesex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1909-07-22. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7941.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  7. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 1909-08-12. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7982.html. Retrieved 2010-06-20. 
  8. ^ "First-class Matches played by Mervyn Herbert". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3613/First-Class_Matches.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  9. ^ London Gazette: no. 28065. p. 6588. 1907-10-01. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  10. ^ London Gazette: no. 28356. p. 2489. 1910-04-12. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  11. ^ London Gazette: no. 29822. p. 10965. 1916-11-14. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  12. ^ London Gazette: no. 31646. p. 13909. 1919-11-18. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  13. ^ "Mervyn Herbert deposition at St Antony's College, Oxford". www.sant.ox.ac.uk. http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/MEChandlists/Mervyn-Herbert-Collection.pdf. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
  14. ^ Abstract only referenced: full text available for a fee. "Mervyn Herbert, Diplomat, is Dead". New York Times. 1929-05-28. p. 25. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00916F63854167A93CAAB178ED85F4D8285F9. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 

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