Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham, KCMG, DL (18 October 1842[1] – 3 April 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician and Governor of Mauritius 1892–1897, then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1897 and 1900.

Jerningham was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northumberland on 21 May 1901, after his return to the United Kingdom.

[4] He was received in a customary stepping down audience by King Edward VII in January 1902.

[5] He settled at Longridge Towers, where he had erected a stately home, said to among the largest private houses in that part of the country.

She was the widow of Charles Mather, and had inherited the Longridge Towers estate near Berwick-upon-Tweed and other property from her first husband.