The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

FUNERALS OF MR. EDWARD HERBERT
AND MR. VYNER.

On Monday afternoon, between two and three
o'clock, the mortal remains of Mr. Edward H. C.
Herbert, one of the victims of the late Greek massacre,
were corsigned to their final resting-place in the vault
of the Carnarvon family at the old parish church of
Iturghclere' Hants, about one mile and a half from
Higbelere Castle, the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon.
The vault is built of stone on the south side of the
chancel. and the first body depoaited in it was that of
Henry Herbert, first Earl of Carnarvon, who died in
June, 1811; while the diet interment was that of Mr.
Edward Charles Hugh Herbert (father of the victim of
the Greek outrage), in the month of May, 18 years
ago.

The body of Mr. Edward Herbert wax conveyed
from Southampton by the mail train on Saturday night
se far as Micheldever station, and drawn thence by
road to Burghclere Church, where it arrived at six
o'clock on Sunday morning, and was at once placed on
a bier in the chancel, where it remained throughout
Sunday. Thousands of persons ticked to the church
and were allowed to paw round the coffin, on either
aide of which warn a row of large wax candle'. In the
afternoon the public were excluded for a short time,

dttrig which Lady Carnarvon and other ladies, mem-
berm of the family, came acroes from the Castle and
deposited wreathe of pure white flowers upon the coffin.
The leaden shell containing the body was enclosed inc
handsome coffin covered with purple velvet, and orna-
mented with silver-gilt crosses, dc. The inscription
ran as follows :

"EDWARD HENRY CHARLES HERBERT.
"Born, lit of September, 1637.
'Died, list of April, 1870
"Murdered by Greek Banditti, near Athens."
The church was densely filled. Shortly after two
o'clock the mournful cortege arrived from Highclere
Castle, and was met by the clergy—Reva E. Waters,
B'. Gosling, Waage, and Warren. The mourners occu-
pied the stalls in the chancel, and also several seats in
the nave. The sacred edifice was draped with black
cloth. The funeral was attended by many of the
relatives and friends of Mr. Herbert, among whom
were Mr. G. H. Ercott and the Rev. a Sweet-Ercott,
his uncles; the Earl of Carnarvon, Hon. Alan Herbert,
Hon. Auberon Herbert, M.P., Mr. Robert Herbert, the
Earl of Portsmouth, Be,. R. B. Barber, Mr. S. Bon-
eerie Purley, the Earl of Dacia, Mr. T. D. Acland, M.P. ;
Mr. H. Jenkinson, Cousin of the deceased; the United
States Minister, Hon. J. Lothrop Motley ; Lord Mon.
caster, Mr. H. Ogilvy, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P.,
Mr. Cyril Graham, Sir W. Throckmorton and Mr. J.
Throckmorton, Her. E. Coleridge, Rev. Edwin Palmer,
Mr. F. Fletcher, Rev. T. Gem, Ste. The following
ladies were present in the chancel, and each brought
flowers, which they laid upon the coffin after it had
been placed in the vault The Countera of Carnarvon,
the Cowden of Portsmouth, Lad v Gweadoline Her-
bert, Ladies Catherine and Lilies Wallop. Mrs. Travers
Fletcher, Miss Jane Herbert, and the Misses Ogilvy.
At the conclusion of the burial service the whole of
the mourners entered the vault, which contains the
remains of the three Earls of Carnarvon who died in
Rill, 1833, and 1849. Ten other members of the
Herbert family also lie there. Mr. Edward Herbert
is not the first member of the family who.e remains
have been brought from abroad for the purpose of in-
terment in this vault, the remains of the Hon. Charles
Herbert, captain, R.N. second son of the first Earl of
Carnarvon, who was drowned off the coast of Spain in
September, 1808, when thirty-four years of age, having
been brought home in the month of December follow-
g.
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The weather proved extremely fine, and persons
living in Hampshire and Berkshire drove long die-
tancea to witness the obsequies of the deceased gentle.
man.