Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen

Herbert was born at the family seat Llanarth Court, Llanarth in Monmouthshire, the eldest son of John Arthur Edward Herbert, formerly Arthur Jones, of Llanarth (1818–1895).Lady Llanover's son-in-law is so named by the National Library of Wales website. Retrieved 10 August 2007 [http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=1&coll_id=334&expand=]. The Gwent Record Offices say that "John Jones's son, John Arthur Jones (1818-1895), obtained a royal licence in 1848 for himself and his brothers and sisters to assume the surname of Herbert in lieu of Jones, being the senior existing branch of the house of Herbert. In 1846 Ivor's father married Augusta Hall, the only surviving child and heir of Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867) and his wife Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover.[http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=36&coll_id=1180&expand= Archives Network Wales - Llanarth Court MSS] The marriage took place on 12 November 1846[https://biography.wales/article/s-HALL-BEN-1802 The National Library of Wales :: Dictionary of Welsh Biography] at yba.llgc.org.uk and two years later, the father and his brothers assumed the name of Herbert by royal licence as the senior branch of the Herbert family.{{London Gazette|issue=20902|page=3585|date=3 October 1848}} (Ironically, no member of this family had been known by that name, so the Jones family was actually taking the name of a junior and more well-known branch, the Herbert earls of Powis descended from an ancient Welsh Catholic family).John Arthur Edward Herbert was grandson of John Jones of Llanarth Court (1760-1828) by his wife and cousin Mary Lee. The Jones/Herbert family were intermarried with other Catholic recusant families such as the Vaughans of Courtfield near Ross-on-Wye, the Berkeleys of Spetchley and now of Berkeley Castle, and the Scropes of Danby, the head of whom married in 1821 Mary, daughter of John Jones and Mary Leei.

His mother was the Honourable Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth Hall, the only surviving daughter and sole heiress of Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover and his wife Augusta Waddington, better known as the Welsh cultural nationalist Lady Llanover, heiress of the considerable Llanover estate in Monmouthshire.Leo van der Pas. "Descendants of Mary Tudor, Princess of England (gen 14-475 to 14-504 of 19 generations)" on worldroots.com. Retrieved 10 August 2007. {{cite web |url=http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/m02/maryenglanddesc1496-84.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004902/http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/m02/maryenglanddesc1496-84.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}[http://www.ladyllanover.org.uk/English/english.htm Augusta Hall (1802-1896) biography available in English] He had two younger brothers, Edward Bleiddyn{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} and Arthur, whose descendants still own Llanover, and the adjoining Llanarth estate.Sir Arthur James Herbert, of the Diplomatic Service, was first British ambassador to Oslo, Norway, and owned Coldbrook, in Abergavenny,[http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=36&coll_id=1184&expand=] and he or more likely, his son inherited Llanover at some point.{{CN|date=December 2024}} His son was Colonel Sir John Arthur Herbert, of Llanover, GCIE(1895-11 December] 1943) and was Governor-General of Bengal till that year. He married in 1924 a daughter of the 6th Earl of Ilchester and had issue ([http://www.william1.co.uk/c8.htm Clarence 8]). The names of the three brothers are available with their professions in 1896 in an article about their grandmother's death.{{cite web |title=Marw |url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gwenynen.gwent/marw.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930220719/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gwenynen.gwent/marw.htm |archive-date=30 September 2007 |access-date=2007-08-10}}. Retrieved 10 August 2007

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Herbert was a British Army officer. In 1870 he purchased a commission as ensign in the Grenadier Guards, with the rank of lieutenant in the Army,{{London Gazette|issue=23675|page=4734|date=4 November 1870}} and in 1874 he was promoted to lieutenant, ranking as a captain.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=24162|page=6225|date=15 December 1874}} In February 1882 he was seconded for service on the staff,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25087|page=1333|date=24 March 1882}} serving as brigade-major of the Home District{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25075|page=771|date=24 February 1882}} until August that year,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25140|page=3919|date=22 August 1882}} when he was appointed brigade-major of the 1st Brigade in the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force sent to Egypt.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25134|page=3581|date=1 August 1882}} For his service in the 1882 Egyptian Campaign he was mentioned in despatches by Sir Garnet Wolseley,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25162|display-supp=y|page=4880|date=2 November 1882}} was awarded the fourth class of the Order of the Medjidie by the Khedive of Egypt,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25169|display-supp=y|page=5169|date=17 November 1882}} and received the brevet rank of major.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25169|display-supp=y|page=5174|date=17 November 1882}} He then again served as brigade-major of the Home District from November 1882{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25171|page=5320|date=24 November 1882}} to 1883.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25290|page=5622|date=23 November 1883}}

In 1883 Herbert was promoted to captain in the Grenadier Guards, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Army.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25241|page=3038|date=12 June 1883}} He was again seconded to serve as military attaché at St Petersburg in 1886,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25615|page=3856|date=10 August 1886}} was granted the brevet rank of colonel in 1889{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=25966|page=4526|date=20 August 1889}} and promoted to major in the Grenadier Guards in 1890.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26010|page=7|date=3 January 1890}} Later in 1890 he was granted the local rank of major-general while commanding the Canadian Militia,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26111|page=6802|date=2 December 1890}} serving until 1895. In 1897 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26903|page=5869|date=26 October 1897}} and commanded the Colonial Contingent during the 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrations.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26947|date=14 March 1898}} His regimental service ended when he went on half-pay in 1898.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26984|page=4065|date=5 July 1898}} He was promoted to substantive colonel and was assistant adjutant-general on the Home District staff from 1898{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=26992|page=4653|date=2 August 1898}} until he went to South Africa in 1899,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=27135|page=6815|date=14 November 1899}} serving in the Second Boer War as assistant adjutant-general in the South African Field Force{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=27204|supp=y|display-supp=none|page=3893|date=22 June 1900}} with responsibility for foreign representatives in the country. In 1901 he vacated his staff appointment and was placed on half-pay,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=27310|page=3036|date=3 May 1901}} and he retired from the Army in 1908.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=28158|page=5135|date=14 July 1908}} In 1909 he was appointed honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment,{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=28260|page=4575|date=15 June 1909}} and in 1912 he was granted the honorary rank of major-general.{{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=28602|page=2988|date=26 April 1912}}

Herbert was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Monmouthshire from 1906 until 1917.Leigh Rayment. An incomplete list of MPs for South Monmouthshire is available.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231651/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons3.htm]}} Retrieved 10 August 2007 In 1907 he was created a Baronet, of Llanarth and Treowen in the county of Monmouth.{{London Gazette |issue=28040 |date=16 July 1907 |page=4858 }} On 20 June 1917 he was further honoured when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Treowen, of Treowen and Llanarth in the County of Monmouth.{{London Gazette |issue=30150 |date=26 June 1917 |page=6286 }}

As a Catholic, he made efforts to remove Cromwell's Statue from Westminster.Ireland The Times 26 September 1906

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Lord Treowen was married on 31 July 1873 in London to the Honourable Albertina Agnes Mary Denison (22 September 1854 – 20 October 1929 London),Leo van der Pas. Ibid. youngest daughter of the Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough (himself a son of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham and his wife, a mistress of George IV) and his second and younger daughter by his second wife, the former Ursula Bridgeman (later Lady Otho FitzGerald; she died 1883).

Lady Treowen founded and was the first President of the Ottawa Decorative Art Society. She was President of the Woman's Humane Society, and the first President of the Humane Society of Ottawa, and, had cabmen's shelters erected in Ottawa. As a member of the Band of Mercy Union, in 1892, she championed a resolution protesting against the use of the check-rein, and agreeing not to use or hire horses that were check-reined. She urged the erection of a national monument to Laura Secord. She was the honorary Secretary to an organization that raised a fund by the women of Canada to present a wedding gift to the Prince and Princess of Wales.{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/156 |page=156}} Lord and Lady Treowen had two children.

• Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert (12 February 1879-18 March 1969){{cite web|url=http://map.coflein.gov.uk/index.php?action=do_details&numlink=12993 |title=Coflein Mapping |publisher=Map.coflein.gov.uk |access-date=2017-08-24}} Girl Guiding's Chief Commissioner of Wales from 1924 to 1928.{{cite news |date=1924-10-30 |work=Brecon County Times |author= |title=V.A.D. Revival |url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002867/19241030/010/0002 |page=2 |location=Brecon, Wales }} Married Walter Francis Roch (20 January 1880-3 March 1965).
• Hon. Elydir John Bernard Herbert (13 January 1881-12 November 1917) died in Balin, Palestine, aged 36. He was unmarried.Private genealogical website. Ancestry for Elydir Herbert. Retrieved 10 August 2007. [http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=genroy&lang=fr;p=elidyr;n=herbert] Elydir Herbert, who had been awarded the Order of the White Eagle by Serbia, died while on service in the First World War with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. He is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.{{cite web|title=HERBERT, The Hon. ELIDYR JOHN BERNARD|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/650312/HERBERT,%20The%20Hon%20ELIDYR%20JOHN%20BERNARD|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=6 August 2016}}

The baronetcy and barony became extinct on Lord Treowen's death.

• CB : Companion of the Order of the Bath{{London Gazette |issue=26082 |date=26 August 1890 |page=4666}}
• CMG: Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George{{London Gazette |issue=26651 |date=9 August 1895 |page=4478}}
• Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy - 1901 - in recognition of his services when in charge of Italian and other foreign representatives in South Africa{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War |date=7 December 1901 |page=10 |issue=36632}}
• Officer of the French Legion d'Honneur - 1902 - in recognition of his services when in charge of the foreign representatives attached to the British Army in South Africa{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular |date=13 November 1902 |page=10 |issue=36924}}

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• [http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=36&coll_id=1180&expand= A short history of the Jones, later Herbert, family up to the death of Lord Treowen] gives some details on the name change in 1848 by Royal Licence Retrieved 10 August 2007.

• Llanarth Court, the family home and seat of Lord Treowen, near Raglan, in Monmouthshire. The house is now a private hospital.{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929022700/http://www.partnershipsincare.co.uk/facilities/llanarth_court.html|title=Llanarth Court|publisher=Partnerships in Care|access-date=11 December 2024}}
• Treowen, also in Monmouthshire, was probably built in 1627. By the 1670s, the Jones family (to rename themselves Herbert in the 1800s) moved to Llanarth Court, near Abergavenny, which had by tradition been the residence of the eldest son. Treowen remained in the family until 1945, but was let as a farmhouse.

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