Violet Ida Eveline Herbert, Countess of Powis and 16th Baroness Darcy de Knayth (1 June 1865 – 29 April 1929) was a British peeress.
Violet was the youngest child of the 12th Baron Conyers and his wife, Mary Curteis. Her sister, Lady Marcia Lane-Fox, became the Countess of Yarborough, and her brother, Hon. Sackville Fitzroy Henry Lane-Fox, died at age 18 at Durban, South Africa. Her paternal grandparents were Sackville Walter Lane-Fox and Lady Charlotte Mary Anne Georgiana Osborne (daughter of George Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds).
On 21 August 1890, she married George Herbert (who succeeded his uncle as Earl of Powis six months later) and they had three children:
In 1888, the countess's father died and his title fell into abeyance, but the abeyance was terminated in favour of Violet's elder sister, Marcia Pelham, Countess of Yarborough, four years later. Eleven years later, in 1903, the barony of Fauconberg (a title which had been in abeyance since the death of the last holder, the 6th Baroness Fauconberg in 1490) was also granted to Marcia. The House of Lords also agreed that their father had held the barony of Darcy de Knayth, which was granted to Violet, at the same time.
The countess died in 1929, aged 63, in a motorcar accient, and her title passed to her eldest surviving son, Mervyn.
| Peerage of England | ||
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| Preceded by Abeyant (Sackville Lane-Fox) |
Baroness Darcy de Knayth 1903 – 1929 |
Succeeded by Mervyn Herbert |