Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley
Edwin Savory Herbert, Baron Tangley,
Life and career
The son (one of five children) of Henry William Herbert, a chemist, and his wife Harriett Lizzie (née Elmes), of Egham, Surrey,[1] Herbert was educated at Queen's College, Taunton and the Law Society's Law School, from which he received his LL.B.[2]
Herbert served as director of postal and telegraph censorship for the
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He was created a
The Greater London Council was established as the strategic authority, with broad town planning and transport powers; below it were the City of London, basically covering the area it had always controlled, and thirty two new London Boroughs. They provided local town planning powers, local highways and inter alia social and housing powers. The GLC took over running the council housing that the London County Council had controlled.[citation needed]
Herbert introduced Thomas Graham Brown to Frank Smythe in 1927. Herbert and Brown later climbed the Brenva face of Mont Blanc.[9] Herbert was President of the Alpine Club from 1953 to 1956.[citation needed]
Herbert married Gwendoline Judd in 1932; they had a son and three daughters. His eldest daughter, Dr Hon. Elizabeth Ann Herbert, M.A. B.Ch., married Michael Cottrell Brain, 3rd Baron Brain, in 1960.[10]
Arms
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31224. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who, vol. 1, 1953, Burke's Peerage, pg 180
- ^ OSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K. E. Bruce, ed. Nelson D. Lankford, The Kent State University Press, 1991, pg 217
- ^ "Memory lane | News | Law Society Gazette". Archived from the original on 6 October 2016.
- ^ "No. 35841". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1943. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 35902". The London Gazette. 12 February 1943. p. 765.
- ^ "No. 40787". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1956. p. 3109.
- ^ "No. 43228". The London Gazette. 24 January 1964. p. 739.
- ^ My Father, Frank: The Forgotten Alpinist, Tony Smythe, Mountaineers Books, 2015.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Charles V. Kidd, David Williamson, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1990, p. 150
- ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970, p. 2610