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Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Carnarvon
PC DL FRS FSA
4th Earl of Carnarvon.jpg
Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office
6 July 1866 – 8 March 1867
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister The Earl of Derby
Preceded by Edward Cardwell
Succeeded by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
In office
21 February 1874 – 4 February 1878
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
Preceded by The Earl of Kimberley
Succeeded by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
In office
27 June 1885 – 28 January 1886
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by The Earl Spencer
Succeeded by The Earl of Aberdeen
Personal details
Born 24 June 1831 (1831-06-24)
Grosvenor Square, London
Died 29 June 1890 (1890-06-30) (aged 59)
Portman Square, London
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) (1) Lady Evelyn Stanhope
(1834–1875)
(2) Elizabeth Howard
(1856–1929)
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford

Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon PC DL FRS FSA (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the Colonies and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Born at Grosvenor Square, London, Carnarvon was the eldest son of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, by his wife Henrietta Anna, daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard. The Hon. Auberon Herbert was his younger brother. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1849 he succeeded his father in the earldom. His nickname was "Twitters", apparently on account of his nervous tics and twitchy behaviour.

Carnarvon served under Lord Derby, as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1858 to 1859. In 1863 he worked on penal reform. Under the influence of Joshua Jebb he saw the gaols ("gaol" being the British official spelling of "jail"), with a population including prisoners before any trial, as numerically more significant than the system of prisons for convicts. He was himself a magistrate, and campaigned for the conditions of confinement to be made less comfortable, with more severe regimes on labour and diet. He also wished to see a national system that was more uniform. In response, he was asked to run a House of Lords committee, which sat from February 1863. It drafted a report, and a Gaol Bill was brought in, during 1864; it was, however, lost amid opposition. The Prisons Act 1866, passed by parliament during 1865, saw Carnarvon's main ideas implemented, though with detailed amendments.


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