HARVEY, EDWARD, brother of Eliab Harvey (adm. Jan 1723/4, qv); b. 1 Aug 1718; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1726/7; left 1735; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1736; Cornet, 10th Dragoons 19 Mar 1740/1; Lieut. , 31 Aug 1744; Capt. , 7th Dragoons 6 Feb 1747; Maj. , 8 Mar 1751; Lieut. -Col. , 6th Dragoons 25 May 1754; Equerry to George III 1760; Col. in the Army 2 Dec 1760; Maj. -Gen. , 10 Jul 1762; Adjutant-General 1763-72; Col. , 12th Dragoons 17 Mar 1763 – Sep 1764, Carabineers 28 Sep 1764 – Oct 1775, 6th Dragoons from 18 Oct 1775; Lieut. -Gen. 25 May 1772; Governor of Portsmouth 1773-7; served with distinction in Seven Years War; wounded at Wetter and Kloster Kampen; MP Gatton 5 Dec 1761-8, Harwich from 1768; described by Horace Walpole as “the King’s confidential tool for the Army” (Journal of the Reign of George III 1771-83, ed. Doran, I, 179); m. ; d. 27 Mar 1778.
HARVEY, ELIAB, second son of William Harvey MP, Chigwell, Essex, and Mary, dau. of Ralph Williamson, Berwick, Northumberland; b. 23 May 1716; adm. Jan 1723/4; Min. Can. 1729; KS 1730; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1734, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1734, scholar 2 May 1735; 4th in “ordo” 1737/8; BA 1737/8; MA 1741; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll. 2 Oct 1740, Major Fellow 9 Jul 1741; adm. Inner Temple 5 May 1733, called to bar 12 Jun 1741, Bencher 1758, Treasurer 1767; tenant chambers, Inner Temple, from 1741; KC 29 Mar 1758; MP Dunwich 1761-8; FRS 29 Mar 1764; m. 20 Nov 1756 Mary, dau. of Richard Benyon, Gildea Hall, Essex, Governor of Bengal; d. 23 Oct 1769.
HARVEY, SIR ELIAB, fourth son of William Harvey MP, Rolls Park, near Chigwell, Essex, and Emma, sister of Stephen Skynner (qv); nephew of Eliab Harvey (qv); b. 5 Dec 1758; adm. 19 Jan 1768; went to Harrow Sch., there in 1770; entered Royal Navy; nominally entered on board William and Mary yacht 1771; Lieut., 26 Feb 1779; Commander 21 Mar 1781; Capt., 20 Jan 1783; served under Sir John Jervis at reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe 1794; commanded HMS Temeraire at blockade of Brest and at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct 1805; Rear-Adm., 9 Nov 1805; serving under Gambier in Basque Roads 1809; dismissed the service 23 May 1809 for declaring publicly on board his flagship, HMS Tonnant, his disapproval of Lord Cochrane’s appointment to a special command; reinstated 21 Mar 1810, “in consideration of his long and meritorious services”, but not again employed; Vice-Adm., 31 Jul 1810; Adm., 12 Aug 1819; succeeded elder brother in family estates 1779; MP Maldon 27 May 1780-4, Essex 1802-12 and from 1820; KCB 2 Jan 1815; GCB 11 Jan 1825; m. 15 May 1784 Lady Louisa Nugent, younger dau. of Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent (I) PC MP; d. 20 Feb 1830. DNB.
Harvey, Ernest Gilmour, brother of Herbert Buchanan Harvey (q.v.); b. May 24, 1877; adm. Sept. 1889 (R); left Dec. 1893; adm. a solicitor April 1899; in practice at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; m. 1904, Ella Violet, eldest daughter of His Honour Judge David Fenwick Steavenson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; d. Dec. 2, 1949.
Harvey, Sir George David, son of Maj.-Gen. David Harvey CB CMG RAMC and Fanny, d. of William Gibson of Currabinney, Co. Cork; b. 18 Aug. 1905; adm. Jan. 1920 (H); left July 1923; FO RAF June 1926, Flt Lieut. Jan. 1930, DFC (N. Kurdistan) 1932, Sqdn Ldr Feb. 1937, Wing Cdr Mar. 1940, temp. Group Capt. Mar. 1942, despatches June 1942, Air Cdre Jan. 1946, Air Vice-Marshal July 1951; CBE Jan. l 943, CB 1953, KBE June 1957; asst Chief of Air Staff (Training); retd 1958; appts adviser Turner & Newall Ltd 1958; m. 3 Jan. 1939 Barbara Isabel Daphne, d. of Arthur J. Knowles; d. 24 Feb. 1969.
Harvey, Herbert Buchanan, son of Herbert Cranmer Harvey, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, solicitor, by Margaret Eliza, daughter of Daniel Cranmer Buchanan, of Barnard Road, Claughton, Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. Oct. 30, 1873; adm. Jan. 14, 1886 (R); left June 1891; manager and engineer to the Cambridge Electric Supply Co. 1901-9, and to the Kent Electric Power Co. 1909; A. M. I. E. E. 1901; M. I. E. E. 1909; m. April 17, 1903, Josephine Edgerley, daughter of Joseph Edgerley Purser, of Dublin; d. Jan. 8, 1957.
Harvey, Jack Seaforth, son of Sir John Martin Harvey, Kt., of St. John's Wood, actor manager, by Angelita Helena de Silva, only daughter of Don Ramon de Silva Ferro; b. April 18, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left July 1915; served in the R.A.M.C. during Great War I; m. Aug. 27, 1927, Hester Margetson.
HARVEY, JAMES MITCHELL ALEXANDER; b.; in school list 1797.
Harvey, Hon. John Wynn, younger son of Oliver Charles Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh GCMG GCVO CB, HM Ambassador to Paris, and Maud Annora, d. of Arthur Watkin Williams-Wynn (qv); b. 4 Nov. 1923; adm. from Eton Coll. Apr. 1938 (H); left Dec. 1939; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1941; 2nd Lieut. KRRC Dec. 1942, p. o. w.; a farmer and writer; author of Within and Without 1960, Beside the Sea 1961; ed. Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey 1970, War Diaries 1978; m. 25 Apr. 1950 Elena, d. of Marchese Giovanni Curtopassi of Rome; d. Sept. 1989 in Rome, Italy.
HARVEY, JOHN; b. 25 Feb 1856; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (James'); d. at school 20 Nov 1872.