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ASTON, HON. HENRY HERVEY, brother of John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 5 Jan 1700/1; adm. 27 Jan 1711/2; QS (Capt. ) 1716; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 8 Jun 1719, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1719 - void 18 Dec 1723; Cornet, 11th Dragoons 25 Mar 1724; Capt., 11th Foot 13 May 1735; 1st Dragoon Guards 21 Dec 1738; retd. 8 Jul 1742; ordained priest (Ely) Sep 1743; Rector of Shotley, Suffolk, from 30 Sep 1743; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Oct 1743; MA 1744; assumed additional surname of Aston by private Act of Parliament (17 Geo. II, c. xxii); earned the gratitude of Dr. Johnson, who in speaking of Hervey to Boswell said “he was a vicious Man, but very kind to me : if you call a dog Hervey, I shall love it” (Boswell’s Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, i, 106); a charity sermon preached by him in May 1745 and published under his name was written by Dr. Johnson; m. 2 Mar 1730 Catherine, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Aston, Bart.; d. 16 Nov 1748.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.