| Reference Number | DE/15/6/1 |
| Title | Poem by Aubrey Herbert addressed to 'Bron' |
| Description | Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert (1880–1923), diplomatist and traveller.
Bron (Auberon Thomas Herbert, eighth Baron Lucas of Crudwell and fifth Lord Dingwall (1876–1916), politician and airman) was Herbert's cousin who died in December 1916. The poem refers to Balliol [College Oxford, which both Herbert and Bron attended] and Raymond. Probably refers to the loss of friends during the First World War. On writing paper headed Avon Tyrrell, Christchurch. |
| WW1 |
| Date | c.1916 |
| Related Material | [see Auberon Waugh, ‘Herbert, Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux (1880–1923)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (online edn) and Alfred Cochrane, ‘Herbert, Auberon Thomas , eighth Baron Lucas of Crudwell and fifth Lord Dingwall (1876–1916)’, rev. Marc Brodie, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (online edn, May 2006)] |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Level | Item |