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Sir Alfred Edward Herbert KBE (5 September 1866 – 26 May 1957) was an English industrialist and museum benefactor. He moved to Coventry in 1887 to manage a small engineering business which grew to become Alfred Herbert Limited, one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.〔Page 4, Alfred Herbert and the British Machine Tool Industry 1887 - 1983, R. Lloyd-Jones and M.J. Lewis, Ashgate, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-0523-2〕 ==Career== Born in Leicester and educated at Stoneygate House School in Leicester, Alfred Herbert became an apprentice at ''Joseph Jessop & Sons'', crane builders in 1884.〔 〕 In 1887 he moved to Coventry to become manager of ''Coles & Matthews'', a small engineering business where his brother, William, was director.〔 In 1888 he went into partnership with William Hubbard. They bought C&M for £2,375 and traded as ''Herbert & Hubbard''. Herbert bought out Hubbard in 1894 and the company was incorporated under the name Alfred Herbert Limited: a company that would become one of the World's largest manufacturers and distributors of machine tools.〔 During World War I Herbert became Controller of machine tools for the Ministry of Munitions.〔 He was knighted in 1917 and appointed an Officer in the Belgian Order of Leopold and an Officer in the French Légion d'honneur in 1919. He retired to Dunley Manor in Whitchurch and died at King's Somborne in 1957.〔〔Obituary, ''The Times'', Monday, 27 May 1957〕
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