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 328 BRISTOL (Foreign), 1801-03. F.R.S. 23 May 1805; F.S.A.; cr. LL.D. i July 181 1. On 30 Tune 1826 he was fr. EARL JERMYN OF HORNINGS- HEATH, Suffolk, and MARQUESS OF BRISTOL. He w., 20 Feb. 1798, Elizabeth Albana,('') 2nd da. of Clotworthy (Upton), ist Baron Templetown [I.], by Elizabeth, da. of Shuckburgh Boughton. She, who was b. 16 Aug. 1775, d. in Sussex Sq., Kemptown, Brighton, 25 May, and was bur. 5 June 1844, at Ickworth, aged nearly 69. He d. of gout in the stomach, at 6 St. James's Sq., 15, and was bur. 24 Feb. 1859, at Ickworth, aged 89. C") Will pr. 28 Apr. 1859, under ;^90,ooo. MARQUESSATE. 2 and 6. Frederick William (Hervey), jj Marquess of Bristol, Earl of Bristol, i^c., '1859. s. and h., b. 15 July 1800, in Portland PI., Marylebone. Ed. at Trin. Coll., Cambridge; M.A. 1822; cr. LL.D. 9 June 1862; M.P. (Conservative) ('^) for Bury St. Edmunds (being then siy/ed Earl Jermyn) 1826-59; F.S.A, 7 Dec. 1830; Treasurer of the Household, 1841-46; P.C. 6 Oct. 1841; Pres. of the Camden Soc. 1858 till his death. He m., 9 Dec. 1830, at St. James's, Westm., Katherine Isabella, 4th da. of John Henry (Manners), 5th Duke of Rutland, by Elizabeth, da. of Frederick (Howard), 5th Earl of Car- lisle. She, who was b. at Belvoir Castle, 4 Feb., and bap. there 25 Mar. EARLDOM. IX. (^) He resisted the pressing requests of his father to throw her over and m. the Countess de la Marche, an illegit. da. of the then King of Prussia, "one of the prettiest, sweetest, most accomplished little women, with ;^ioo,000 down besides the reversion of a landed property in Germany." (E. of Bristol, Aug. 1796). His father works out a sort of debit and credit calculation thus: " On my side On his side j^5,ooo a year down No fortune Do. do. in reversion Wife and children beggars An english Dukedom which for want of settlement, the King pledges to obtain. No connexion. Royal connexion: Princess of A love match like all others Wales and Duchess of York. For 4 generations before him." — V.G. C") Count Woronzow writes, 17 Apr. 1801, to Lord Grenville, urging that he should not be sent as Minister to St. Petersburg: " Je crains que Lord Hawkesbury ne noma a cette place son beau frere Lord Hervey . . . je le connois intimement: il a la vanit6, I'esprit, la legeret^, et le deficit de jugement caracteristique de la famille. II est Hervey, Hervey, et Archi-Hervey de maniere que je tremble que ce ne soit lui qu'on nome; et si on le fait, je m'attens a mille follies de sa parts ainssi qu'a mille regrets de la votre." "He had no particular complaint, but said 'he felt the machine was worn out.' He was in his ninetieth year, and of all men I have ever met with was the one over whom time had passed the most lightly." (Henry Gre- ville's Diary, 16 Feb. 1859). V.G. ('^) As a peer he was known as a Peelite; he supported the Liberal Govt, of Palmerston against the vote of censure on the Danish question in 1864. V.G.