Mervyn Horatio Herbert, 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, styled Viscount Clive (7 May 1904 – 23 March 1943), was a British peer and Royal Air Force officer.
[1] Mervyn followed in his brother's footsteps by fighting for Britain, gaining the rank of Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
A recreational aviator,[2] he enlisted at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 as an Aircraftsman, was promoted Flight Sergeant and later commissioned.
He died in 1943, aged thirty-eight, while flying on active service, and was buried in the churchyard of Christ Church, Welshpool.
In 1946, the widowed Lady Clive remarried, to Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General of Australia.