Percy Egerton Herbert
1822–76
Army officer. Second son of Edward Herbert, second earl of Powis. Served in the Kaffir and Crimean Wars. Deputy quartermaster-general at Horse Guards, 1860–5; at Aldershot, 1865–7. Major-general, 1868. MP for Ludlow, 1854–60; for South Shropshire, 1865–76. Knighted, 1869.
Source
Burke’s peerage 1980, DNB.
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
