Robert H. Granville
(1841-1915)
7 October 1862

Volume 9, page 240, sitting number 11,958.

[Identified as 'Robt. H. Granville' in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably Robert Henry Granville, a 'government clerk [in the] war office,' according to the 1861 census.] 

Born on 9 December 1840, Robert Henry Gallot Granville was baptised at St Martin-in-the Fields on 6 February 1841. His birth was registered under the name 'Robert Henry Gallot Herbert.' He was one of the three illegitimate children of Alexina Sophia Gallot and her protector Robert Henry Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke, who lived an irregular life in self-imposed exile. According to Lord Malmesbury, he 'lives in great state in Paris, and is as famous for his cook as for his horses. He is a very handsome man.' He died in Paris in 1862 and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. 

At the time of the 1861 census, Robert was living at 30 Grove Place in Kensington with his 'widowed' mother Alexina Sophia Granville, his younger sister, and two servants. 

When his mother died in 1891, her will was proved by Robert Henry Herbert 'of 35 Lincolns-Inn-fields,' so it seems Robert adopted his father's surname in later life. 

When the census was taken later that year, Robert H. Herbert, born at St Martin-in-the-Fields, was 'living on [his] own means' at 22 Marlborough Road, Chiswick, with only a younger female servant for company. 

In 1901 he was living with two servants at 16 Addison Road, Chiswick. He gave as his profession 'Retired pensioned government clerk / Living on own means.' He was still at the same address when the 1911 census was taken.

Robert Henry Herbert died, aged 74, on 22 January 1915 at 16 Addison Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick. He left an estate valued at £5731.