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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.
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.
- "2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth"
- October 15, 1696
- Jermyn Street, London, England
- August 5, 1743
John Hervey, Baron Hervey (born October 15, 1696—died August 5, 1743, Ickworth, Suffolk, England) 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.
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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696–1743) was a courtier and politicial writer. He was the son of the first Earl of Bristol, and took the courtesy title of Baron Hervey of Ickworth on his brother's death in 1723, but died before his father and so never became Earl of Bristol. Hervey was born in Jermyn Street, St James's and educated at ...
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]
People. John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey. 1696 - 1743. Summary. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London. John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth c.1740–1741. Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745) (studio of) National Portrait Gallery, London. Courtier and writer. Find out more. Biography on Wikipedia. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Presumably commissioned by Lord Hervey as a version of Van Loo’s portrait of him painted for his father, to hang with, or in exchange for, the portrait that he got the latter to have painted of himself for him; thence by inheritance and descent to the 4th Marquess (1863-1951), on whose death valued for probate; after which, accepted in lieu ...
