Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell,, was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895.

Ridley Haim Herschell was a Polish-born British minister who converted from Judaism to evangelical Christianity. He was a founder of the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews (1842) and of the Evangelical Alliance (1845),