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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.
21 de oct. de 2023 · b. 15 Oct. 1696, 1st s. of John Hervey, M.P., 1st Earl of Bristol, by his 2nd w.; half-bro. of Carr, Lord Hervey, and bro. of Hon. Felton and Thomas Hervey. educ. Westminster 1712-13; Clare, Camb. 1713-15; visited France and Hanover 1716-17.
John, Lord Hervey. 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.
29 de jun. de 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]
12 de mar. de 2024 · 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.
This is a reduced version of the full-length by Van Loo, which is also at Ickworth. This oval half-length was probably painted to hang with the pendant depicting his father. Lord Hervey was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751) and Elizabeth Felton, his second wife.
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696–1743), was a politician, court wit and pamphleteer. On the death of his half-brother Carr in 1723 he took the courtesy title of Lord Hervey and gained some renown both as a writer and in politics.
