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Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, PC (Ire), FRS (1 August 1730 – 8 July 1803), was an 18th-century Anglican prelate. Elected Bishop of Cloyne in 1767 and translated to the see of Derry in 1768, Hervey served as Bishop of Derry until his death in 1803.
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Hervey, Frederick Augustus (1730–1803), bishop of Derry, 4th earl of Bristol and 5th Baron Howard de Walden , was born 1 August 1730 at Ickworth House, Suffolk, third son of John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth, and Elizabeth Hervey (née Lepell).
Frederick Hervey (1730-1803) became Bishop of Derry in 1768. He made five extended visits to Italy, spending eighteen years there in total. The Earl Bishop is shown with his granddaughter, Caroline Crichton (1779-1856), in the gardens of the Villa Borghese in Rome.
The life of Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, (Fig. 5$) has been widely published.1 However, the fate of his collection of works of art in Rome, which was sequestrated by the French in 1798, has remained something
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), Bishop of Derry. Gallery portraits. All known portraits. Biography and References. c.1760. Painting attributed to Johann Zoffany, half-length oval in clerical dress, an open book showing an engraved Expulsion from Paradise.
Traveller, builder, collector and patron of the arts, Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, or ‘Earl-Bishop’, led a capricious and eccentric life. He lived for some time in Italy where he bought and commissioned art indiscriminately.
