Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Herbert of Lea, Elizabeth

HERBERT OF LEA, Elizabeth. Baroness, philanthropist, b. in England about 1H25. She is the only daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Ashe A'Court and niece of Lord Heytesbury. and on 12 Aug.. 1846. married .Sidney Herbert, second son of the eleventh earl of Pembroke. Her husband was created Baron Herbert of Lea, 15 Jan., 1801, held for some time the secretaryship of state for war, and died, 2 Aug., 1861. His elder brother died childless, and I^ady Herbert's eldest son, George Robert Charles, succeeded to the earldom of Pembroke in 1863. Lady Herbert has passed many years in the West Indies in philanthropic labors among the negroes, and came to this country in 1888 tie work among the colored people of the south, seeking their conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Her son. Michel Henry, b. 25 June, 1857, as attaelii ot the British legation at Washington, liecame acting minister in November. 1888. on the dismissal of Lord Sackville, and on the 27th of that month he married an American.