George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis

Who is George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis?

George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, known as George Herbert until 1891, was a British peer.

Herbert was born at Number 26, Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, and baptised at St George's, Hanover Square. He was son of the Honourable Sir Percy Egerton Herbert and Lady Mary Caroline Louisa Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, daughter of William Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry. He succeeded his uncle the 3rd Earl in the peerage in 1891.

He was educated at Eton College and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1885 and MA in 1905.

After gaining of his first degree, he was employed as a civil servant in the administrative branch of the General Post Office in London but resigned after succeeding to his peerage.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1896, a post he held until 1951. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Montgomeryshire and JP for the counties of Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, and Alderman of Shropshire County Council. He was Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

In 1898 he was made Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers.