Dennis Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Hemingford

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|PC|DL}}

| office1 = Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Chairman of Ways and Means

| image = Dennis Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford.png

| caption = A 1944 portrait of Herbert by George Harcourt

| monarch1 = George V
Edward VIII
George VI

| term_start1 = 1931

| term_end1 = 1943

| predecessor1 = Robert Young

| successor1 = Douglas Clifton Brown

| office2 = Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

| term_start2 = 1928

| term_end2 = 1929

| predecessor2 = Edward Fitzroy

| successor2 = Herbert Dunnico

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|2|25|df=y}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|12|10|1869|2|25|df=y}}

| death_place =

| party = Conservative Party

| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Graeme Bell|1902}}

| children = 4, including Dennis

| office3 = Member of Parliament
for Watford

| term_start3 = 14 December 1918

| term_end3 = 1 February 1943

| predecessor3 = Arnold Ward

| successor3 = William Helmore

}}

Dennis Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KBE|PC|DL}} (25 February 1869 – 10 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician.

Life

Herbert was the eldest son of Reverend Henry Herbert, Rector of Hemingford Abbots in Huntingdonshire. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Watford at the 1918 general election, a seat he held until 1943. From 1928 to 1929 he served as Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and from 1931 to 1943 as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons). Appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1929,{{London Gazette |issue=33472 |date=1 March 1929 |page=1440 |supp=y}} Herbert was admitted to the Privy Council in 1933 and on 1 February 1943 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hemingford, of Watford in the County of Hertford.{{London Gazette |issue=35888 |date=2 February 1943 |page=607}}

Lord Hemingford married Mary, daughter of Valentine Graeme Bell, on 9 June 1902. He died in December 1947, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Dennis Herbert. Lady Hemingford died in 1966.

Between 1918 and 1943, Herbert lived in a Victorian villa at 36 Clarendon Road, Watford. This locally listed building was later used as a registry office until it was demolished in 2015 by Hertfordshire County Council to make way for a block of flats and offices.{{cite web|title=Locally Listed Buildings in Watford|url=http://www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=29651101|publisher=Watford Borough Council|accessdate=13 April 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305230820/http://www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=19343002|archivedate=5 March 2012|page=245|date=2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Victorian villa in Clarendon Road to be demolished to make way for flats and offices|url=http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/11263077.Victorian_villa_to_be_demolished_to_make_way_for_flats_and_offices/|accessdate=3 May 2015|work=Watford Observer|date=6 June 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503185040/http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/11263077.Victorian_villa_to_be_demolished_to_make_way_for_flats_and_offices/|archivedate=3 May 2015|url-status=live}}

A 1944 portrait of Herbert by the Scottish painter George Harcourt hangs in the Watford Museum,{{cite web|title=The Right Honourable Sir Dennis Henry Herbert, Lord Hemingford (1869–1947) Harcourt, George 1868–1947 1944 Oil on canvas|url=http://fineart.watfordmuseum.org.uk/galleries/2004_358.html|website=Watford Museum Fine Art Collection|accessdate=5 May 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505111126/http://fineart.watfordmuseum.org.uk/galleries/2004_358.html|archivedate=5 May 2015|url-status=dead}} and there are also photographic portraits of Herbert by the high-society portrait photographers Bassano & Vandyk in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.{{cite web|title=Dennis Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford (1869–1947), Politician; MP for Watford|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp64322/dennis-henry-herbert-1st-baron-hemingford|website=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=5 May 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505111435/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp64322/dennis-henry-herbert-1st-baron-hemingford|archivedate=5 May 2015}}

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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