Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon

Who was Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon?

Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon was a British peer, the son of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Almina Wombwell.

Styled Baron Porchester from birth, he inherited the Earldom of Carnarvon on the 1923 death of his father – who was famously funding archaeologist Howard Carter when he discovered the tomb of Tutenkhamun. The 6th Earl attributed the death of his father to the "Curse of Tutenkhamun", claiming that the moment his father died on 5 April in Egypt, the family dog howled and died a sympathetic death at Highclere Castle, the family seat. In his memoirs, he described an unloving upbringing by his parents. After his father died, he became responsible for the upkeep of Highclere Castle while his mother refused him an inheritance. She remarried only eight months after the death of her first husband.

Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon was married twice:

1 1922–1936: Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell, by whom he had one son, the 7th Earl, and one daughter. Anne was the daughter of Jacob Wendell III and Marian Fendall, who was in turn the granddaughter of Philip Richard Fendall II, the District Attorney of the District of Columbia.