Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert was born on June 12, 1831, in Brighton, Sussex, England.

He was the 1st Premier of Queensland, Australia. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1854; B.C.L., 1856; D.C.L., 1862). He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in April 1858. In 1859, Sir George Bowen, governor of the new colony of Queensland, chose Herbert as a private secretary, eventually becoming the Colonial Secretary of Queensland and the 1st and 3rd Premier of Queensland (10 December 1859 – 1 February 1866; 20 July 1866 – 7 August 1866). Afterward, Herbert returned to England and in 1870, he became an Assistant Under-Secretary for the Colonies. In 1871, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the position he held for 21 years with great distinction. In 1882, he was created K.C.B., and in 1892, G.C.B. In the same year, he was appointed chancellor of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He left the colonial office in 1892 and in 1893-1896, he was Agent-General for Tasmania. He did active work in connection with the formation of the British Empire League. He became Chairman of the Tariff Commission in 1903.

He died on May 6, 1905, in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, England.

Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert was born on April 3, 1880, in Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England.

He was a British diplomat, politician, traveller, and intelligence officer. He suffered from poor eyesight and became almost blind by his early 40s. He scraped through the Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. A renowned traveller, especially in the Middle East, he spoke French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and Albanian. In 1902, he became an honorary attaché at the embassy in Tokyo and, in 1904, in Constantinople. In 1911, Herbert was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament, a post he held for the rest of his life. In 1910, he married Mary Gertrude Vesey (1889–1970). He became a passionate advocate of Albanian independence, having visited the country in 1907, 1911, and 1913. He acted as an adviser to the Albanian delegates at the 1912–1913 London Balkan Peace Conference. At the outbreak of World War I, despite very poor eyesight, Herbert joined the Irish Guards and served in a supernumerary position. In 1915, he became part of the British Intelligence Department in Cairo. He was sent on an intelligence mission into the eastern Mediterranean and spent the rest of the war in Mesopotamia, Salonika, and Italy. In 1923, at a Balliol College annual dinner, he met his old tutor, A. L. Smith, who advised him that the best cure for blindness was teeth extraction. Following this advice, Herbert developed blood poisoning and died on September 23, 1923, in London, England.