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George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 10 November 1956), styled Lord Porchester from 1987 to 2001, is a British peer and farmer. His family seat, Highclere Castle, has achieved notability as the primary filming location for television series' Downton Abbey and Jeeves and Wooster. Carnarvon and his family live in ...
Earl of Carnarvon is a title that has been created three times in British history. [2] The current holder is George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon . The town and county in Wales to which the title refers are historically spelled Caernarfon, having been Anglicised to Carnarvon or Caernarvon.
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Lord Carnarvon's great-grandfather, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, made the discovery along with Howard Carter. "I remember when he first started that there, all he found in his first season of ...
Porchie married Jean Margaret Wallop in 1956, and they went on to have three children together, including George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, the current Earl of Carnarvon. The Queen is his ...
On 7 January 1956, Carnarvon (then known by his courtesy title Lord Porchester) married Jean Margaret Wallop (1935–2019) of Big Horn, Wyoming, [2] in St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City. [16] She was a granddaughter of Oliver Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth. [17] Carnarvon's father, the 6th Earl had also married an Anglo-American. [18]
Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (7 November 1898 – 22 September 1987), was a British peer. He was the son of George, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , and Almina Wombwell .
Lord Carnarvon at Howard Carter's house in Egypt, c. 1922. Items portrayed in this file depicts. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. ... current: 18:21, 25 October ...