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14th Earl of Pembroke

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Titania's Palace, Sir Neville Wilkinson, 1926.

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke
(and 11th Earl of Montgomery, and 3rd Baron Herbert of Lea), see here,
born 20th Feb 1853,
mar Beatrix Louisa Lambton,
succ 1895,
Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin, was laid out 1907,
it was handed over to the Pembroke Urban District Council by the 14th Earl in 1911 (though a sign at the park says 1903), named after his father, Lord Herbert,
died 30th Mar 1913, age 60 yrs, having had issue:

1. Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (and 12th Earl of Montgomery, and 4th Baron Herbert of Lea),
   born 8th Sept 1880,
   mar 21st Jan 1904 to Beatrice Eleanor Paget,
   succ 1913,
   Wilton was used as Red Cross military hospital in WWI,
   Hereditary Visitor of Jesus College, Oxford,
   Wilton was the HQ of Southern Command (all of SW England) in WW2,
   the Double Cube room was the operations room where Churchill and Eisenhower planned the Allied invasion of Europe (the D-Day landings 1944),
   died 13th Jan 1960, age 79 yrs,
   having had issue:
   1. Lady Patricia Herbert, born 12th Nov 1904, mar William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambledon and had issue.

   2. Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, born 9th Jan 1906.

2. Lady Beatrix Herbert,
   mar 1903 to Sir Neville Wilkinson [Major Sir Neville Rodwell Wilkinson, born 1869] and had issue:
   1. Gwendolen Wilkinson.
   from 1903 to 1914 they resided at Mount Merrion,
   planted on the lawn there slips (cuttings) from the cedars of Lebanon at Wilton House,
   Sir Neville built in 1907 for his dau Gwendolen, the "Pembroke Palace" doll's house - a loosely based miniature of Wilton House, containing miniature versions of family portraits (incl miniature portrait of Reebkomp), and special miniature portraits of (left to right) 14th Earl, Gwendolen, Sir Neville,
   also built the famous "Titania's Palace" fairy doll house, this is fantasy, not based on Wilton,
   Sir Neville was Ulster King of Arms from 1908 to death, allowed to keep the office after independence,
   author of (must be between 1903 and 1913) a catalogue of pictures at Wilton and a guide to Wilton for his father-in-law the 14th Earl,
   author of brief history of Mount Merrion 1925,
   he died Dublin 1940, age 71 yrs.

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• Herbert Park

• Pembroke Palace is now at Wilton.
• Titania's Palace is now in Legoland, Denmark.
• "Tara's Palace", a doll's house inspired by Titania's Palace, is at Malahide Castle, Co.Dublin.