Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon was born on 24 June 1831. He was the son of Henry John George
Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon and Henrietta Anna Howard. He married, firstly, Lady Evelyn Stanhope, daughter of George
Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield and Anne Elizabeth Weld-Forester, on 6 September 1861.
He died on 28 June 1890 at age 59.