Dennis Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford

Dennis Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford KBE PC (25 February 1869 – 10 December 1947), was a British Conservative politician.

Herbert was the eldest son of Reverend Henry Herbert, Rector of Hemingford Abbots in Huntingdonshire. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Watford at the 1918 general election, a seat he held until 1943. From 1928 to 1929 he served as Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and from 1931 to 1943 as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons). Herbert was admitted to the Privy Council in 1933 and in 1943 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hemingford, of Watford in the County of Hertford.

Lord Hemingford married Mary, daughter of Valentine Graeme Bell, in 1903. He died in December 1947, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Dennis George Ruddock Herbert. Lady Hemingford died in 1966.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Dennis Herbert

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arnold Sandwith Ward	Member of Parliament for Watford 1918–1943	Succeeded by William Helmore
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Hemingford 1943–1947	Succeeded by Dennis George Ruddock Herbert