Herbert Chermside - Family and Later Life

Family and Later Life

Herbert Chermside was the second son of the rector of Wilton, Reverend Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, and his wife, Emily Dawson. His paternal grandfather was the military surgeon Sir Robert Chermside.

Chermside was married twice: to Geraldine Katherine Webb whom he married in 1899, although she died in 1910; and to Clementine Maria Reuter (daughter of Paul Reuter) from 1920. Both marriages were childless.

Sir Herbert retired from the British Army in 1907 at the rank of Lieutenant-General. He died in London, aged 79, on 24 September 1929.