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 BRISTOL 327 of his descent through his grandmother (wife of the ist Earl of Bristol), Elizabeth Felton, abovenamed. In politics he was a Whig. He m., 10 Aug. 1752, at Rushbrooke, Elizabeth, sister and h. of Sir Charles Davers, Bart., and da. of Sir Jermyn Davers, Bart., of Rougham, Suffolk, by Mar- garetta, da. and coh. of the Rev. ( — ) Green. She ^. at Ickworth suddenly, of spasms, 1 9, and was bur. there 27 Dec. 1 800. He d. at Albano, near Rome, of gout, aged nearly 73, 8 July 1803, and was bur. 21 Apr. 1804, at Ick- worth. Will pr. i8o4.(') [John Augustus HERVEY,j/v/(',r/LoRD Hervey, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. ap.jC') b. I and bap. 29 Jan. 1757, at Horningsheath, Suffolk. Capt. R.N. 1780; Ambassador at Florence, i787-94.('') He m., 4 Oct. 1779, at Quebec, Elizabeth, da. of Colin Drummond, of Megginch Castle, co. Perth, and of Quebec. He d. v.p. and s.p.m., 10 June,('') and was bur. 26 Sep. 1796, at Ickworth, aged 39. His widow d. 4 Sep. 18 18, at Richmond, Surrey.] VIII. 1803. I and 5. Frederick William (Hervey), Earl OF Bristol and Baron Hervey of Ickworth, MARQUESSATE. Hereditary High Steward of Bury St. Edmunds, I. 1826. 2nd and yst., but only surv. s. and h. male (but not heir_^i?«.), b. 2 June 1769. Ed. at St. John's Coll., Cambridge; M.A. 1788. Ensign ist Foot Guards, 1778-92, M.P. (Whig)('=) for Bury St. Edmunds, 1 796-1 803. Under Sec. of State and to the last degree vindictive; vain to excess, inconstant in his friendships fond of intrigue in gallantry as well as in politics, and sticking at nothing to gain his ends in either .... A bad father, both from caprice and avarice; a worse husband to the best and most amiable of wives; a determined deist, though a bishop, and at times so indecently impious in his conversation as to shock the most reprobate. . . His ambition and his lust can alone get the better of his avarice." V.Q. (^) He appears in 1784, " The Patriotic Prelate and Mrs. H.," in the tke-h-tke portraits in Town and Country Mag.., vol. xvi, p. 681, for an account of which see Appendix B in the last volume of this work. (*>) His elder br. George, hap. 25 Oct. 1755 at Horningsheath, d. abroad, about 1764. {^) In 1775 he and a Mrs. Nesbitt appear, as " The Hon. Capt. H . . . . y and Mrs. N . . b . . t" in the tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country Mag., vol. vii, p. 9. See Appendix B in the last volume of this work. (<') Elizabeth Catherine Caroline, his only da. and h., i. 1 7 Aug., and hap. 4 Sep. 1780, at Ickworth, m. 2 Aug. 1798, Charles Rose Ellis (afterwards, 15 July 1826, cr. Baron Seaford), and d. 21 Jan. 1803, leaving issue Charles Augustus Ellis, who, 8 July 1803, mc. his maternal great-grandfather (the 4th Earl of Bristol abovenamed) in the Barony of Howard (of Walden), which was confirmed to him in 1806. (') He voted in opposition for many years with the Grenvilles. In the later part of his long, though not specially distinguished political career, he was a Conservative; he followed Peel, however, in his change on the Corn Law question, and supported the Liberal Govt, in the divisions on votes of censure in 1850. V.G.