Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (3 July 1734 – 26 January 1794) was a British military officer, politician and courtier who served as Lord of the Bedchamber from 1761 to 1763.

[2] He was educated at Eton College, and was styled Lord Herbert until he succeeded to his father's earldom in 1749.

He became an authority on breaking cavalry horses and in 1755 built an indoor Riding School at Wilton House and commissioned 55 paintings of military riding exercises which now hang in the Large Smoking Room at Wilton.

In 1761, he wrote the British Army's manual on riding, Military Equitation: or A Method of Breaking Horses, and Teaching Soldiers to Ride, which had already reached a 4th edition by 1793, and his methods were adopted throughout the British cavalry.

[3] Henry was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber to George III in 1769, and advanced to the rank of General in 1782.

1750 portrait of Herbert by David Morier
Portrait possibly of Kitty Hunter, Pembroke's mistress, inscribed on the back: For Lord Pembroke at Whitehall ; or possibly of Mary FitzWilliam, his mother