Richard Farrer Herschell, 2nd Baron Herschell GCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (22 May 1878-14 October 1929), was a British

United Kingdom

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 Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Herschell was the only son of Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

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 Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell

Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell

Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell GCB, PC, QC was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895.-Early career:...

, and his wife Agnes Adela (née Kindersley), and succeeded in the barony in 1899. He was private secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland the Earl of Aberdeen

John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, was a Scottish politician...

 from 1905 to 1907 and served in the Liberal administrations

Liberal Government 1905-1915

With the fall of Arthur Balfour's Conservative government in the United Kingdom in December 1905, the Liberals under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman were called in to form a government. In the subsequent election, the Liberals won an enormous majority...

 of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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 and later H. H. Asquith

H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...

 as a Lord-in-Waiting

Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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) from 1907 to 1915.

Lord Herschell married Annie Vera Violet, daughter of Sir Arthur Thomas Bennett Nicolson, 10th Baronet, in 1919. The wedding took place at the Nicolson property of Brough Lodge

Brough Lodge

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 on Fetlar

Fetlar

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, Shetland. He died in October 1929, aged 51, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Rognvald. Lady Herschell died in 1961.