The Honourable Aubrey Herbert

Herbert was born in 1880 and died in 1923. He was a British soldier, diplomat and intelligence officer, who was particularly associated with Albanian independence (He was twice offered the throne of Albania). From 1911 until his death he was a Conservative M.P. His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who discovered the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Herbert had been in the Sherwood Rangers, the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry regiment, at the time of the South African war, but in the Great War he joined the Irish Guards despite his poor eyesight. He spoke reasonable Turkish, and saw service at Gallipoli, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other areas of the Near and Middle East. His career in the war bears some resemblance to stories which might have appeared in the Boys Own Paper.