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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, PC (13 October 1696 – 5 August 1743) was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court intrigues and literary quarrels, being apparently caricatured by Pope and Fielding.
John Hervey, Baron Hervey was a politician and wit whose Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second are of first importance and, along with the writings of Horace Walpole, are largely responsible for many of posterity’s impressions of 18th-century England.
Jun 29, 2021 · John Hervey, 2 nd Baron Hervey, is one such person. He was a prominent—one may even say infamous— courtier during the reign of George I and II. In the latter’s reign particularly, he was a royal favourite—the “child, pupil, and charge” of Queen Caroline. [1]
Oct 21, 2023 · John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey PC (13 October 1696 – 5 August 1743), English courtier and political writer and memoirist, was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth.
HERVEY, John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743), of Ickworth, Suff. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Jun 3, 2024 · John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and political writer and memoirist, was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was known as Lord Hervey from 1723, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Carr, the only son of his father's first wife, Isabella.
The third creation came in 1703 in the Peerage of England, when John Hervey was made Baron Hervey, of Ickworth, Suffolk. John Hervey was a second cousin thrice removed of William Hervey and was later created Earl of Bristol .
