Ancestry of
George Herbert

8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)

George Herbert

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• • Great-grandfather of George Herbert — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert 
  • Mother:
  • Evelyn Stanhope   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Jun 1866 
  • Birth Location:
  • Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Apr 1923 
  • Death Location:
  • Cairo, Egypt 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Almina Wombwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jun 1895 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, England 
  • Child:

  Henry Herbert (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • 5th Earl of Carnarvon

    George Herbert's full name was George Edward Stanhope Mulyneux Herbert.

    George Herbert was the chief financial backer of Howard Carter's Egyptian excavations including King Tut's tomb. He was said to have been one of the victims of "Curse of Tutankhamun" or "The Mummy's Curse." Six weeks beford the Earl's death, Daily Mail correspondent Arthur Weigall reported that he watched Lord Carnarvon enter King Tut's tomb joking and laughing and turned to the Daily Express correspondent H. V. Morton and said, "I give him six weeks to live."

• Sources for George Herbert

  • ¹ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 506-507.
  • ² The Guardian, "Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey", (accessed 04/02/2020).
  • ³ Wikipedia, "George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon", _5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon, (accessed 04/02/2020).