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11 unusual facts about George Herbert


Carnarvon, Northern Cape

The name was changed in 1874 in honour of the British Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon (1831–1890), whose son, also Lord Carnarvon, was the famous Egyptologist.

De Havilland Biplane No. 1

During a visit to Crux Easton in the summer, they discovered unused sheds that had been built on Lord Carnarvon's estate at Seven Barrows by John Moore-Brabazon.

Eugene Webb

"George Herbert and the Language of Disclosure." West Coast Review 10, 3 (February 1976): 44–46.

Gaston Maspero

It was Maspero who recommended Carter to George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon in 1907, when the Earl approached him to seek advice for the use of an expert to head his planned archaeological expedition to the Valley of the Kings.

George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke

Pembroke served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1875 in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli.

Mount Merrion

Prior to his death in 1816, he bequeathed his vast estates to his cousin, the 11th Earl of Pembroke.

Pembroke House

The 9th earl died here in 1733, as did his great-grandson the 11th Earl, in 1827.

Rotherham by-election, 1933

The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, George Herbert.

St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown

The site of the church was given by George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke along with £1,000 towards the construction.

The Country Parson

A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson (1652), often abbreviated The Country Parson, a collection of poetry by George Herbert, a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

Translatio studii

The metaphor of "translatio studii" went out of fashion in the 18th century, but such English Renaissance authors as George Herbert were already predicting that learning would move next to America.


Diego Valverde Villena

He has translated into Spanish literary works written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski, Paul Éluard, Joachim du Bellay, Valery Larbaud, Nuno Júdice, Jorge Sousa Braga, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Paul Celan.

Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of Egyptian antiquities who financed archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, stayed many times at the Winter Palace.