Percy Mark Herbert, KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (24 April 1885–22 January 1968) was the first Bishop of Blackburn

Bishop of Blackburn

The Bishop of Blackburn is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Blackburn in the Province of York.The diocese covers much of the county of Lancashire and has its see in the town of Blackburn, where the seat of the diocese is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary...

 from 1927 then Bishop of Norwich

Bishop of Norwich

The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers most of the County of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The see is in the City of Norwich where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided...

 from 1942 to 1959. He was also a Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity

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. He was the Clerk of the Closet

Clerk of the Closet

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 from 1942–63.

Life

Percy was the son of Major-General the Honourable William Henry Herbert (himself the son of Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis) and Sybella Milbank. Educated at Rugby

Rugby School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, he was ordained in 1909. After a period as Chaplain

Chaplain

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 to his old school

Rugby School

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 he was appointed Vicar

Vicar

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 of St George's, Camberwell

Camberwell

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, and Warden

Warden (college)

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 of the Trinity Cambridge Mission until 1922. On 19 September 1922, he married Hon. Elaine Orde-Powlett, daughter of William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton

William Orde-Powlett, 5th Baron Bolton

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 and they had four children. That same year he was also appointed Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames

Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames

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. Further appointments followed, and after retiring from his post as Bishop of Norwich, Herbert became Rector of St Mary Magdalene's Church in Sandringham

Sandringham, Norfolk

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. It was at that church in 1961 where he baptised the Honourable Diana Spencer

Diana, Princess of Wales

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(later Princess of Wales). Above all "a pastoral bishop", he died at the Royal Masonic Hospital in London.