HERTFORDSHIRE 



Hertfordshire. Map ol the county to the nortn or Middlesex, famous tor its 

 agriculture and market gardening 



Mrs. Humphry Ward passed many 

 of her later years at Tring. Hoddes- 

 don has memories of Prior and 

 Izaak Walton. See Highways and 

 Byways in Hertfordshire, 1902, 

 and Hertfordshire, 1903, H. W. 

 Tompkins ; Memorials of Old Hert- 

 fordshire, ed. P. C. Standing, 1905 ; 

 The Victoria History of the Coun- 

 ties of England: Hertfordshire, 4 

 vols., ed. W. Page, 1902-14. 



Hertfordshire Regiment. Reg- 

 iment of the British Army, 

 established under the Territorial 

 Forces Act of 1907. It consists of 

 territorial or volunteer battalions 

 only. The first battalion was mo- 

 bilised in August, 1914, and went 

 to France before the end of the 



Aug. 31, 1843, he was educated at 

 the universities of Munster, Munich, 

 and Berlin, afterwards studying 

 for two years in Italy. He was an 

 unofficial professor at Bonn, 1867- 

 80, when he be- 

 came a profes- 

 sor at Munich. 

 He had pre- 

 viously entered 

 the Reichstag, 

 and soon be- 

 came the leader 

 of the Centre or 



Count von Hertiing, Catholic party. 

 German statesman In 1891 he 

 was Bavarian minister of state, 



and in 1912 became minister pre- 

 sident of Bavaria. On the fall of 



year. It was with the 2nd corps Bethmann-Hollweg in July, 1917, 



in the fighting around Ypres in he was offered the imperial chan 



Nov., and with the Guards in the 



attack on Festubert, May, 1915. 



In the third battle of Ypres, 1917, 



the Hertfordshires formed part of a 



force of Territorials that operated 



below Pilkem and towards the vil- 

 lage of St. Julien. The regimental 



headquarters are at Hertford. 

 Hertha. Teutonic goddess. 



Called also Nerthus, she was the 



goddess of fertility. Our scanty 



information about her worship is 



derived from Tacitus, who, in his 



Germania, gives a brief account 



of certain mysterious ceremonies 



which took place on an unknown 



island, usually at night. Her statue 

 was veiled. 



Hertiing, COUNT GEORQ FRIED - 

 RICH VON (1843-1919). German 

 statesman.^- Born at Darmstadt, 



cellorship by 

 William II and 

 declined it ; but 

 when it was again 

 offered to him he 

 accepted it, and 

 on Nov. 1 suc- 

 ceeded Dr. 

 Michaelis. He re- 

 signed, however, 

 Sept. 30, 1918, 

 and died Jan. 4, 

 1919. 



's Hertogen- 

 bosch, OR Bois- 

 LE-Dcc (Dutch 

 and Fr., Duke's 

 Wood). Town of 

 the Netherlands, 

 capital of N. 

 Brabant. It 



HERTSLET 



stands at the confluence of the Aa 

 with the Dommel, 30 m. S.S.E. 

 of Utrecht, and is a rly. junc- 

 tion. Its splendid Gothic cathedral 

 of S. John, dating from the middle 

 of the 15th century, was built on 

 the site of an llth century Roman- 

 esque structure, and is noted for 

 its rich ornamentation, lofty nave 

 with double aisles, and beautiful 

 choir and pulpit. The Raadhuis, 

 in the Great Market, contains 

 numerous fine paintings, and the 

 provincial museum houses many 

 antiquities. Other buildings of 

 note are the government build- 

 ings, court house, episcopal palace, 

 arsenal, barracks, and grammar 

 school. 



Formerly strongly fortified, its 

 defences were razed in 1876. Brew- 

 ing and distilling are carried on, 

 and the manufactures include 

 cigars, linen, cutlery, and glass. A 

 steam tramway connects with 

 Helmond, 20 m. distant, while the 

 Zuid Willems canal joins it to 

 Maastricht and other places. The 

 duke commemorated by the name 

 is Godfrey of Brabant, who founded 

 it in a wood in 1184, and afterwards 

 granted it municipal privileges. 

 Pop. 37,667. 



Hertslet, SIR EDWARD CECIL 

 (b. 1850). British civil servant. 

 The son of Sir Edward Hertslet 

 of the foreign office, and educated 

 at King's College, London, he 

 served in the foreign office, 1868- 

 96, was consul-general at Havre, 

 1896-1903, and from 1903-19 

 was consul-general for Belgium. 

 He was employed at Zurich, 

 1915-17, and at the foreign office 

 during the remainder of the Great 

 War. His activities in British and 

 foreign photographic conventions 

 and conferences gave him a dis- 

 tinguished position on the juries of 

 various exhibitions, and he was 

 royal commissioner of the exhibi- 

 tions of Brussels, 1910, Turin, and 

 Rome, 1911. 



Hertogenbosch. 

 century 



The cathedral of S. John, an lltu 

 foundation, rebuilt 1419-50 



