and Portofino properties. Died unmarried. Gabriel Mary Hermione Herbert (29 September 1911 – 15 November 1987), eldest daughter, who was one of two volunteer nurses serving with the Spanish Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. She married Major Alexander Dru. Their grandson Alexander Dru married Lady Tatiana Mountbatten. (Anne) Bridget Domenica Herbert (22 February 1914 – 8 July 2005), who married (as his second wife) Major Allister Edward Grant (1892–1947), MC, "Eddie", of Nutcombe Manor, Clayhanger, Tiverton, Devon, a steeplechase rider who had twice broken his neck riding in the Grand National, later a publisher, son of Sir Charles Grant and grandson of Sir Robert Grant, MP. She was "the most down-to-earth by far of all the Herberts" and after her husband's early death devoted herself to farming. Laura Laetitia Gwendolen Evelyn Herbert (21 June 1916 – June 1973), who in 1937 married (as his second wife) the novelist Evelyn Waugh, whom she had met at Portofino, as a guest of her sister Gabriel. Waugh's first wife, from whom he was divorced, was Evelyn Gardner, a half first-cousin of Laura and Auberon, and a niece of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon. The marriage was opposed by her brother Auberon. She was the mother of the journalist Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) (born at Pixton and named after his maternal uncle) and the grandmother of Daisy Waugh and Alexander Waugh. Death and burial During most of his life, he had poor eyesight and was almost blind by his early 40s. Toward the end of Herbert's life, he became totally blind. He received bad medical advice which persuaded him to have all his teeth extracted to help restore his sight. The dental operation resulted in blood poisoning from which he died in London on 26 September 1923. This was five months after the death of his elder half-brother, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the Egyptologist who had discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun. In 1924 Herbert's estate was valued for probate at £49,970 (equivalent to £ in pounds). His full-length recumbent effigy on a chest tomb with ceremonial sword above, survives in the Herbert Chapel in the Church of St Nicholas, Brushford, Somerset, near his seat at Pixton Park. Above it on decoratively sculpted wooden panelling are displayed six heraldic shields describing his ancestry and marriage. Model for literature The cameo character of the "'Honourable Herbert" in Louis de Bernières's novel Birds Without Wings