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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 · John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth was born on 15 October 1696 at Jermyn Street, London, England. He was the son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol and Elizabeth Felton. He was baptised on 25 October 1696 at Jermyn Street, London, England. He married Mary Lepell, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Nicholas Lepell and Mary Brooke, on 29 October 1720.
- "2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth"
- October 15, 1696
- Jermyn Street, London, England
- August 5, 1743
12 de mar. de 2024 · John Hervey, Baron Hervey, 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. The eldest surviving son of John Hervey, 1st.
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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]
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.
A conversation piece painted for John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743), who stands at centre, wearing the gold key, the badge of his office as Vice-Chamberlain to the Royal Household. Hervey gestures at an architectural plan (probably from Isaac Ware's Palladio) being held up by Henry Fox, later 1st Baron Holland (1705-74), and ...
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.