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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.

HERVEY, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, 4th EARL OF BRISTOL, third son of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 1 Aug 1730; adm. Jan 1741/2 (Bourne's); left 1747; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. 10 Nov 1747; MA 1754; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Feb 1747/8; a Clerk of the Privy Seal 1753, Principal Clerk 1761-7; ordained deacon 24 Aug 1754, priest 26 Jan 1755 (both Ely); Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1763-8 [check]; travelled in Italy 1765-6; Chaplain to his elder brother when Lord Lieut. Ireland in 1766-7; consecrated Bishop of Cloyne 31 May 1767; Privy Councillor (I) 9 Oct 1767; Bencher, King’s Inns, Dublin 1767; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 16 Feb 1768; translated to Derry 18 Feb 1768; DD Oxford (from Brasenose Coll. ) 6 Apr 1770; again in Italy 1770-2 and 1777-9; succeeded his brother as 4th Earl of Bristol 23 Dec 1779; FRS 28 Feb 1782; advocated relaxation of penal laws against Roman Catholics and the abolition of tithes; Chaplain-General to Irish Volunteers 1782, attending Volunteer convention in Dublin Nov 1783 as delegate from Co. Londonderry; again in Italy 1785-6 and 1789-90; left Britain for last time in Sep 1792, and spent rest of his life in European travel, principally in Italy; imprisoned by French in Milan 1798-9; succ. relative as 5th Baron Howard de Walden 18 Nov 1799; of liberal opinions and eccentric personal conduct, and a capricious patron of architects and artists; m. 10 Aug 1752 Elizabeth, sister of Sir Robert Davers, Bart. (qv); d. on his way between Albano and Rome 8 Jul 1803. DNB.

HERVEY, GEORGE WILLIAM, 2ND EARL OF BRISTOL, eldest son of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 3 Aug 1721; adm. 1731; left Midsummer 1738; Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards 11 Mar 1726/7 (sic); Lieut., 21 Dec 1738; Ensign, 38th Foot 2 Jun 1739; 1st Foot Guards 11 May 1740; Capt., 48th Foot 27 Jan 1741; retd. Aug 1742; Grand Tour (Italy) 1741; succ. father as 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth 5 Aug 1743, and grandfather as 2nd Earl of Bristol 20 Jan 1750/1; Envoy Extraordinary, Turin 5 Apr 1755 – Aug 1758; Ambassador at Madrid Sep 1758 – Dec 1761; Lord Lieutenant, Ireland Sep 1766 - Jul 1767 [check], but did not go over; Privy Councillor 26 Sep 1766; Lord Privy Seal 2 Nov 1768 – Jan 1770; Groom of the Stole and First Lord of the Bedchamber from 19 Jan 1770; d. unm. 18 Mar 1775. DNB.

HERVEY, JOHN, 2nd BARON HERVEY OF ICKWORTH, eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir Thomas Felton, Bart. MP; b. 15 Oct 1696; adm. 28 Jan 1711/2; left Jul 1713; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. 20 Nov 1713, matr. 1714; MA 1715; styled Lord Hervey from 1723; MP Bury St. Edmunds 2 Apr 1725 – 11 Jun 1733; travelling in Italy for health in 1728-9; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 7 May 1730 – Apr 1740; Privy Councillor 8 May 1730; having initially been a follower in politics of Frederick, Prince of Wales, he subsequently became a supporter of Sir Robert Walpole and a trusted confidant of Queen Caroline; fought a duel with William Pulteney (qv) in the “Upper St. James’s Park” 25 Jan 1730/1; created Baron Hervey of Ickworth 11 Jun 1733; Lord Privy Seal 1 May 1740 – Jul 1742; one of the Lord Justices of the Realm May 1741; author, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, first published from his manuscript in 1848, and of other political pamphlets; the expenses of his “schooling” at Westminster, and of that of his three brothers, are recorded in the Diary of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, 1894; m. 21 Apr 1720 Mary, Maid of Honour to Caroline, Princess of Wales, dau. of Brig. -Gen. Nicholas Lepell, Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Denmark; d. 5 Aug 1743. DNB.

HERVEY, HON. THOMAS, brother of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 20 Jan 1698/9; adm. 17 Jan 1711/2; left 25 Mar 1717 (Diary of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, 1894); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1717; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Feb 1719/20; MP Bury St. Edmunds 29 Jun 1733-47; Equerry to Queen Caroline 6 Nov 1727 – Jul 1736; Superintendent of the King’s Gardens 23 May 1738-60; eloped about 1730 with the second wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. (qv); author of several eccentric pamphlets mainly about his own grievances; m. Aug 1745 Anne, dau. of Francis Coghlan, barrister (I); d. 16 Jan 1775. DNB.

HERVEY, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) May 1731; in school list 1732 (as Harvey); left 1738.