page_title: Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
section_title: Mistresses
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke / Mistresses
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1737-1831)
context_page_description: Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 7th Earl of Montgomery of Wilton House in Wiltshire, was an English peer, politician and courtier who served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III in 1769. He was renowned for his skill in horse breaking. Captain Cook's famous ship, HMS Endeavour, was formerly MS Earl of Pembroke, launched 1765 and named after the 10th Earl.
context_section_description: He had several mistresses amongst whom were:
  Kitty Hunter, whom he met on his return to England in January 1762, and, disguised as a sailor, eloped with to the Low Countries having left a note for his wife. Horace Walpole commented:
  "As Pembroke a horseman by most is accounted
  'Tis not strange his Lordship a Hunter has mounted."
  On Henry's recall to the Army in Germany, the pregnant Kitty returned to England and on 23 November 1762 gave birth to their child Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp (1762-6 February 1797) whose middle name spelled "Hunter" backwards and whose surname was an anagram of "Pembroke". He  later adopted the surname "Montgomery".  Henry returned to England in February 1763 and was reconciled to his wife in March.
  Second mistress, with whom Henry had another affair in Venice in 1768, apparently carrying the lady off on the very night of her wedding to someone else.  She gave birth to their illegitimate child Caroline Medkaff that year or the next.
caption: Portrait possibly of Kitty Hunter, Pembroke's mistress, inscribed on the back :For Lord Pembroke at Whitehall; or possibly of Mary FitzWilliam, his mother
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