Politician. Nephew to John Hervey. He was MP for Bury St Edmunds, 1694 - 1703. In 1703 he was created Baron Hervey of Ickworth, and Earl of Bristol in 1714.
Confusingly Hervey was the second 1st Earl of Bristol. The first creation, 1622, being in the Digby family of which the 3rd Earl died without issue in 1698.
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John Hervey 1st Earl of Bristol
On this site stood the residence of the Hervey family. Their house was compl...
Housing Committee Parmiter Street, 1926. Alderman and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Member of the LCC and a Councillor on the Bethn...
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
Governor of the New River Company, in 1786, a Master in Chancery and a director of the East India Company.  Died in 1804 ‘immensely rich’.  From History of Parliament.
Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. c.1894-5 a J. Eastty living in Bermondsey was elected to serve on the committee of the Baptist Fund, and in 1887 the British Bee Journal...
Deputy Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
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