George Herbert (priest)

The Very Reverend Honourable George Herbert (25 November 1825 – 15 March 1894) was an Anglican priest. He was Dean of Hereford in the last third of the 19th century.^[1]

Herrbert was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.^[2]^[3] At Cambridge, he was president of the University Pitt Club.^[4] Ordained in 1850,^[5] he began his ministry as a curate at St Mary's Kidderminster. Five years later he became Vicar of Clun. In 1867 he was appointed to the Deanery of Hereford Cathedral,^[6] a post he held until his death.^[3]

Notes

↑ thePeerage.com
↑ "Herbert, the Hon. George (HRBT844G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
1 2 The Times, Friday, Mar 16, 1894; pg. 11; Issue 34213; col E Obituary The Very Rev George Herbert
↑ Fletcher, Walter Morley (2011) [1935]. The University Pitt Club: 1835-1935 (First Paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
↑ ”Hereford Cathedral: a history” Aylmer,G/Tiller,J: London, Hambledon, 2000 ISBN 1-85285-194-5

Church of England titles
Preceded by Richard Dawes	Dean of Hereford 1867–1894	Succeeded by James Wentworth Leigh

Deans of Hereford

High Medieval	Ralph Geoffrey Richard Hugh de Breusa Hugh de Mapenor Henry Thomas de Bosebir Ralph de Maidstone Stephen Thorne Ancelin/Anselm Giles de Avenbury John de Aqua-Blanca

Late Medieval	Stephen de Ledebury Thomas Trilleck William de Feriby William Bermingham John de Middleton John Harold John Prophet Thomas Felde John Bagshaw John Stanwey Henry Shelford John Berew Richard Pede Thomas Chaundler Oliver King John Hervey

Early modern	Reginald West Thomas Wolsey Edmund Frowcester Gamaliel Clifton Hugh Curwen Edmund Daniel John Ellis John Watkins Charles Langford Edward Doughtie Richard Montagu Oliver Lloyd Silvanus Griffiths Daniel Price John Richardson Jonathan Brown Herbert Croft Thomas Hodges George Benson John Tyler Robert Clavering John Harris Edward Cresset Edmund Castle John Egerton Francis Webber Nathan Wetherell

Late modern	William Leigh George Grelton Robert Carr Edward Mellish Edward Grey John Merewether Richard Dawes George Herbert Wentworth Leigh Reginald Waterfield Hedley Burrows Robert Price Norman Rathbone Peter Haynes Robert Willis Michael Tavinor

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