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Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon

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In March 1940, Lord Carnarvon re-joined the 7th Hussars as a lieutenant. During the War he held a number of staff positions in England, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1948 he was awarded the US
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Marian Herbert (3 March 1925 – 1990). She married her second cousin Captain Reinier Gerrit Anton van der Woude, son of R.A.G van der Worse and his wife Mary Wendell, daughter of Harvard professor
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was that "however sceptical I might have been, I could not dismiss the matter out of hand", claiming that the moment his father died on 5 April in Egypt, the family dog
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from birth, he described in his memoirs an unloving upbringing by his parents, spending much of his time with his grandmother Marie "Mina" Wombwell (
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Following his divorce from Catherine, Lord Carnarvon married Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Losch, an
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On his death on 22 September 1987 aged 88, he was succeeded by his son,
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Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon
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described him as a "most uncompromisingly direct ladies' man".
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Penelope Catherine Mary van der Woude (19 August 1952 – 1978).
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Michael Gerrit van der Woude (25 March 1946 – 14 January 2008)
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Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
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and Jean Moore, on 7 January 1956. They have three children:
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Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
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Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun
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in April 1923 on the death of his father – who had funded
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Ermine Tales: More memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon
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Index

The Right Honourable
Earl of Carnarvon


Catherine Wendell
Tilly Losch
Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
Almina, nÊe Wombwell
British Army
Lieutenant Colonel
7th Queen's Own Hussars
World War I
World War II
Bronze Star Medal
George, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
Almina Wombwell
Lord Porchester
nÊe
Ludgrove School
Eton
Sandhurst
First World War
7th Queen's Own Hussars
India
Mesopotamia
Earldom of Carnarvon
archaeologist
Howard Carter
Tutankhamun

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