Herschell left a widow, Agnes Adela, daughter of Edward Leigh Kindersley and granddaughter of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley; a son, Richard Farrer Herschell (b.1878), who succeeded him as second baron; and two daughters.
Herschell left a widow whom he had married in 1876, Agnes Adela, daughter of Edward Leigh Kindersley and granddaughter of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley. They left a son, Richard Farrer Herschell (b.1878), who succeeded as second baron, and two daughters.