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 324 BRISTOL [Carr Hervey, styled Lord Hervey, s. and h. ap., being only s. by ist wife, b. 17, and bap. 21 Sep. 1691; ent. 4 June 1708 at Clare Hall, Cam- bridge; M.A. 1 7 10. He was M.P. (Whig) for Bury St. Edmund's, 1713-22. Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He d. unm. and v.p., at Bath, Somerset, 14, and was bur. 24 Nov. 1723, at Ickworth, aged 32.(") M.I. Admon. 29 Nov. 1723.] [John Hervey, j/>/f^ Lord Hervey, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. ap., being ist son by 2nd wife, b. in Jermyn Str., 15, and bap. there 25 Oct. 1696; ent. 9 Nov. 1713, at Clare Hall, Cambridge; M. A., 1715. He was M.P. (Whig) for Bury St. Edmunds C") 1725-33. Vice Chamberlain of the Household 1730-40, and P.C. 8 May 1730. By writ, 11 June 1733, he was sum. to Pari, v.p., in his father's Barony, as LORD HERVEY OF ICKWORTH, (^) and took his seat next day. Lord Privy Seal, i May 1740 to 1742. One of the Lords Justices of the Realm, May 1741. He »/., 21 Apr.('^) 1720, Mary (then Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales), da. of Brig. Gen. Nicholas Lepell,(') Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Denmark, by Mary, da. of John Brooke, of Rendlesham. He d. ^'./|., in his 47th year, 5, and was bur. 12 Aug. 1743, at Ickworth. (Q M.I. Will pr. 1743. His widow, who was b. 26 Sep. 1706, d. 2 and was bur. 9 Sep. 1768, at Ickworth, aged nearly 62. M.I. Will pr. that month.] (*) According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu {Letters and Worh, edit. 1861, vol. i, pp. 71-74), he was the real father of Horace Walpole. V.G. C") Until the accession of George II, when he went over to Walpole, he was, with his father, one of the section of the party who followed Pulteney. V.G. (■=) For a list of such summonses see vol. i. Appendix G. C^) See note " e " on previous page. (^) "For Venus, sure, never saw bedded So comely a Beau and a Belle, As when Hervey, the Handsome, was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell." From a letter of Humphrey Prideaux, 30 Sep. 1698, it may be gathered that Lady Hervey got her looks from her father, and her wit from her mother. Her portrait was painted by Reynolds. V.G- (') He is the " Sporus " so bitterly satirised by Pope, whose — " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray As shallow streams run dimpling all the way." A very different estimation of him was, however, held by most of his contemporaries. To Caroline, the Queen Consort, " he was particularly agreeable, as he helped to en- liven the uniformity of a Court with sprightly repartees and lively sallies of wit." (Opinions of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough). G-E.C. His exceedingly entertaining Memoirs, published 1848, which have been freely drawn upon in the notes to this work for sketches of his contemporaries, afford convincing proof of his wit, acumen, and liveliness. His father attributed his constant ill health to his drinking " that de- testable and poisonous plant, tea, which had once brought him to death's door, and if persisted in would carry him through it." V.G.