Albert Herbert was born in Leicester, Leicestershire , England on 17 July 1875 and was articled to James Tait (1834?-1915) in Leicester from 1892 to 1895. He then worked as an assistant to John Breedon Everard (1844?-1923) and Samuel Perkins Pick (1858?-1919) of Everard & Pick in Leicester from 1895; to Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863-1953) and Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872-1920) of Lanchester & Rickards in Westminster, London; and to George Thomas Hine (1841-1916) in Nottingham. He also studied at Leicester School of Art for seven years.
Herbert qualified as an architect in 1898 and commenced practice in Leicester in 1900. He subsequently formed a partnership with James Tait as Tait & Herbert.
Herbert was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1898 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1928. He was President of the Leicester Society of Architects from 1927 to 1929.
He had a considerable interest medieval architecture and its ancillary crafts and was a member of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. He did much ecclesiastical work and in Leicestershire alone carried out no less than fifty-seven major restorations and embellishments. Herbert died in Leicester, Leicestershire on 22 January 1964.
Extensions, Leicester Museum and Art Galleries; several extensive mill and factory buildings and warehouses. Leicestershire and Warwickshire; Industrial works, Kobe, Japan; offices and showrooms, Milan, Italy. [Source: Who's Who in architecture 1914]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001