Robin Arthur Elidyr Herbert, CBE, who died 12 January, 2024, was a president of the Royal Horticultural Society.
His home was at Llanover is set in the Usk Valley beneath the Black Mountains in Monmouthshire, South Wales. The 18-acre Grade II listed garden, set within a beautiful park, features a walled Round Garden, two Arboreta and extensive herbaceous borders and lawns. The Rhyd-y-Meirch (Ford of the Stallions) stream flows the entire length of the garden, tumbling into ponds, over cascades and beneath flagstone bridges. Llanover Garden was established in the late 18th century by Benjamin Waddington, Robin Herbert's great-great-great-grandfather.
He was born in 1934, scion of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Arthur Herbert, GCIE (1895-1943), and his wife the former Lady Mary Theresa Fox-Strangways (1903-1948), daughter of the 6th Earl of Ilchester, GBE (1874-1959). He married firstly, 1960 (div 1988), Margaret Griswold Lewis, daughter of the Hon Geoffrey Whitney Lewis (1910-92), and his wife the former Elizabeth Merrill Locke (1914-2009); & married secondly, in 1988, Philippa King.
From his first marriage he leaves issue, two sons, Benjamin (born 1963), and Richard (born 1969), and two daughters, (Helen) Elizabeth (born 1962), and Susannah Mary (born 1966).
His daughter, Elizabeth Murray, is now chatelaine of Llanover.
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