Sidney HERBERT was made Baron of Lea. Apparently he was responsible for sending Florence Nightingale to the Crimea. Does anyone know if this is Lea in the FOD? I have "googled" but cannot find out where this Lea was.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), English politician, government reformer, and member
of a prominent English family. Herbert was the second son of George Augustus Herbert,
11th Earl of Pembroke. ( Family home Wilton House, Salisbury, Wiltshire)
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, was educated at
Harrow School near London and at Oriel College, Oxford University.

In 1832 he entered the House of Commons as a member of the Tory Party, representing
a district in Wiltshire. He was secretary for war under Sir Robert Peel in 1845.
During the Crimean War (1853-1856) he was secretary for war under Lord Palmerston
from 1852 to 1855. He served in that capacity again in 1859.
Herbert was responsible for sending British reformer Florence Nightingale and her nurses
to the Crimea to care for the wounded.
His fight for reform of the War Office broke his health, and he resigned in 1861.

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea was born on 16 September 1810. He was the son of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and Catherine Woronzow. He married Elizabeth à Court Repington, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Charles Ashe à Court Repington and Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs, on 12 August 1846. He died on 2 August 1861 at age 50.

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea gained the title of 1st Baron Herbert of Lea in the County of Wilts
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Lea/index.htm

In the early 1840s, Herbert had an affair with the noted society beauty and author Caroline Norton, who was unable to get a divorce from an abusive husband, so that the relationship ended in 1846.

In 1846 Sidney Herbert married Elizabeth (b. Richmond, 21 July 1822; d. Herbert House, London, 30 Oct 1911), only dau. of Lt.-Gen. Charles Ash à Court-Repington and niece of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury. She was a philanthropist, author and translator, and a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Vaughan. After her husband's death, Lady Herbert became an "ardent Ultramontane" Roman Catholic, along with their eldest daughter, Mary.

Sidney and Elizabeth Herbert had seven children:

1.George Robert Charles Herbert (1850-1895), who succeeded in the title and later became the 13th Earl of Pembroke, and the barony is now merged in that earldom.
2.Sidney Herbert (1853-1913), also a Member of Parliament, who succeeded his brother as the 14th Earl of Pembroke.
3.William Reginald Herbert, b. 1854, lost at sea aboard HMS Captain (1869), aged 17.
4.Michael Henry Herbert (The Hon. Sir Michael Herbert, KCMG, CB, PC) (1857-1904), a diplomat who ended his career as British Ambassador to the USA in Washington DC in succession to Lord Pauncefote, after whom the town of Herbert in Saskatchewan, Canada, is named. He m. 1888 Lelia ('Belle'), daughter of Richard Thornton Wilson, Sr., a New York banker and cotton broker, and had (with one other son) Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet.
5.Mary Catherine (1849-1935), who m. 1873 the great modernist theologian, Baron (Freiherr) Friedrich von Hügel.
6.Elizabeth Maud (1851-1933), who m. 1872 the composer, Sir Charles Hubert Parry, 1st Baronet (son of Thomas Gambier Parry), of Highnam Court, near Gloucester.
7.(Constance) Gladwys (1859-1917), who m. 1st 1878 St.George Henry Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (issue, 1 daughter) and m. 2ndly 1885 Frederick Oliver Robinson, the Earl de Grey, later 2nd and last Marquess of Ripon (no issue).
Sidney Herbert is buried in the church at Wilton, rebuilt by him in neo-Romanesque style, with a marble monumental effigy of him beside Elizabeth, his wife (who, however, was buried at St Joseph's Missionary College, Mill Hill, where she was a notable patron).

Herbert Sound in the Antarctic and Pembroke, Ontario in Canada are named after Sidney Herbert.

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Thanks Slowhands. Just looking for confirmation of what I was thinking. The ref to Wilton(as one also near Ross on Wye) I had sussed out was in Wilts but the bit re Highnam made me wonder.
Regards.