{{Short description|Russian noble (1783–1856)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery | honorific_suffix = | image = CatherineVorontsova Raeburn Henry.jpg | caption = ''Portrait of Lady Pembroke'', by Sir Henry Raeburn, {{circa|1810}}s | birth_name = Countess Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova | birth_date = {{birth date|1783|10|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia<!--See MOS:GEOLINK--> | death_date = {{death date and age|1856|03|27|1783|10|24|df=yes}} | death_place = | parents = Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (father)<br/>Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina (mother) | spouse = {{marriage|George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke<br/>|1808|1827|reason=his death}} | children = {{plainlist| * Elizabeth Meade, Countess of Clanwilliam * Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea * Mary Brudenell-Bruce, Marchioness of Ailesbury * Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore * Georgiana Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne * Emma Vesey, Viscountess de Vesci }} | relatives = Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (brother) }} '''Catherine Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery''' (born '''Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova'''; {{langx|ru|Екатерина Семёновна Воронцова}}; 24 October 1783 – 27 March 1856) was a Russian noblewoman who married the 11th Earl of Pembroke.

==Early life== She was born in Saint Petersburg, the daughter of Ekaterina Alekseevna Seniavina and Count Semyon Vorontsov (sometimes spelt Woronzow), the Russian Ambassador in Britain from 1785 to 1806. She was the only sister of Prince Mikhail Vorontsov, Viceroy of New Russia and Caucasus.<ref name=Vorontsov>[http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Herbert/woronzow.html Woronzow], Humphrys genealogy, accessed April 4, 2012</ref>

She was a niece of Imperial Chancellor Alexander Vorontsov, Elizaveta Vorontsova and Princess Dashkova, a friend of Catherine the Great and a conspirator in the ''coup d'état'' that deposed Tsar Peter III and put his wife on the throne.<ref name="Rhinelander1990">{{cite book |last1=Rhinelander |first1=Anthony Laurens Hamilton |title=Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar |date=1990 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-0747-0 |page=222 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCNv8i3p8ekC&pg=PA222 |access-date=7 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life== In 1808, she married lieutenant general George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke as his second wife and became Countess of Pembroke, the châtelaine of Wilton House, Wiltshire.<ref name="Dobbs2012">{{cite book |last1=Dobbs |first1=Michael |title=Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War |date=16 October 2012 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-96089-4 |page=371 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5LA51Z3eJ0C&pg=PA371 |access-date=7 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> From 1807 until his death in 1827, he served as Governor of Guernsey. Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 3095|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

* Lady Elizabeth Herbert (1809–1858), who married Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, had issue.<ref name="burke"/> * Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810–1861), who married Mary Elizabeth Ashe à Court-Repington, had issue.<ref name="burke"/> * Lady Mary Herbert (1813–1892), who married George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury, no issue.<ref name="burke"/> * Lady Catherine Herbert (1814–1886), who married Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore, had issue.<ref name="burke"/> * Lady Georgiana Herbert (1817–1841), who married Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne, no issue.<ref name="burke"/> * Lady Emma Herbert (1819–1884), who married Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci, had issue.<ref name="burke"/>

Lady Pembroke died on 27 March 1856. Upon her husband's death, the earldoms were inherited by his son from his first marriage, Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke. On his death without legitimate issue in 1862, the titles passed to Catherine's grandson George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke, and on his death in 1895 to his brother, Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, whose descendants hold them to this day.

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