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HERSENT (or HARSNETT), PETER; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1616, adm. scholar 2 May 1617; BA 1620/1; MA 1624 (incorp. Oxford 5 Jun 1628); while an undergraduate a somewhat turbulent person, judging from an apology signed by him among the Trinity Coll. admonitions 22 Feb 1621; Librarian, Trinity Coll. 24 Sep 1625-31.

HERTSLET, HENRY CHARLES, brother of Lewis Cooke Hertslet (qv); b. 27 Dec 1817; adm. 24 May 1826; at King’s Coll. Sch. in 1832; emigrated to New Zealand 1850; m. 25 Mar 1853 Fanny, third dau. of John Orbell, Waikouaiti, New Zealand, farmer; d. at Naseby, Mount Ida, Otago, New Zealand 16 Nov 1902.

HERTSLET, LEWIS COOKE, son of Lewis Hertslet, Great College Street, Westminster, Librarian and Keeper of Papers, Foreign Office, and his first wife Hannah Harriet Jemima, dau. of George Cooke, Westminster; b. 2 Nov 1812; adm. 26 May 1823; Chief Clerk to Commissioner of Sewers, London; m. 19 Dec 1837 Mary Anne, eldest sister of George Tupman Fincham (qv); d. 2 May 1875.

HERTSLET, WILLIAM JAMES, brother of Lewis Cooke Hertslet (qv); b. 29 Feb 1816; adm. 8 Apr 1825; HBM Vice-Consul at Memel, Prussia 18 Sep 1835; HBM Consul at Königsberg, Prussia, from 7 Jun 1856; m. 29 Jan 1839 Emma Wilhelmina, dau. of Daniel Holzendorf, Memel; d. at Königsberg, Prussia 12 Jan 1885.

Hertz, Ernest Stewart, son of Jacob Hertz, of Sutton, Surrey, by Caroline, daughter of James Stewart, of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire; b. April 5, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left July 1907; engaged in farming in Norfolk; served in France in Great War I as trans­port officer Lieut. 16th Batt. West Yorks Regt.; severely wounded at Lens Dec. 22, 1917; Chevalier de l'Ordre de Merite Agricole; general sales manager Charlesworth, Peebles and Co., electrical engineers, London and Glasgow; m. Jan. 21, 1914, Minnie Victoria, daughter of Charles Synden; d. 1967.

HERVEY, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-9 (“major”).

HERVEY, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-9 (“minor”).

HERVEY, ---; b.; in under school list 1715. [perhaps = Hon. Henry Hervey Aston (qv)]

HERVEY, AUGUSTUS JOHN, 3RD EARL OF BRISTOL, second son of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 19 May 1724; adm. Jan 1732/3; in school list 1734; entered Royal Navy as midshipman 1736; Lieut., 31 Oct 1740; Commander 16 Sep 1746; Post Capt., 15 Jan 1746/7; served under Byng in Mediterranean 1756, under Hawke in the English Channel 1759 and under Keppel at Belleisle 1760; took part in capture of Martinique, Sta. Lucia and Havana 1762; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 1763; Rear-Admiral 31 Mar 1775; Vice-Admiral 29 Jan 1778; a Colonel of Marines 1762-5; MP Bury St. Edmunds 16 May 1757 – Feb 1763, Saltash 1 Dec 1763-8, Bury St. Edmunds 1768 – 18 Mar 1775; Groom of the Bedchamber 5 Nov 1763 – Mar 1775; Chief Secretary for Ireland Oct 1766 – Jul 1767 (his brother being then Lord Lieutenant); Privy Councillor (I) 14 Oct 1766; a Lord of the Admiralty 1771-5; succ. brother as 3rd Earl of Bristol 18 Mar 1775; member, Society of Dilettanti 1760; m. 4 Aug 1744 (divorced 11 Feb 1769) Elizabeth, dau. of Col. Thomas Chudleigh, Lieut. -Governor of Chelsea Hospital; d. 23 Dec 1779. DNB.